U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), dean of the New Jersey Congressional Delegation, co-sponsored the National Defense Critical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2006 – legislation that was introduced today by US House Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) and Rep. Jim Saxton (R-NJ). Read more

In response to a failed effort by the US Department of State to encourage the government of Sudan to effectively address human trafficking, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) urged the Administration to correct its policy. Last fall, a four month experiment began designed to improve Sudan’s ranking on the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) ratings from Tier 3 (the worst traffickers) to Tier 2. Read more

The Central Asia Democracy and Human Rights Act of 2006 (HR 3189), a bill authored by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), moved one step closer to passage after being overwhelmingly approved by his Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations. Read more

American people are deeply troubled to see U.S. technology and know-how used by repressive regimes in China and elsewhere in the world to cruelly exploit and abuse the citizens of those countries. While the Internet has opened up commercial opportunities and provided people all over the world with access to vast amounts of information, in China it has also become a malicious tool -- a cyber-sledgehammer of repression in the hands of the government. Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), dean of the New Jersey Congressional Delegation, co-sponsored the Foreign Investment Security Improvement Act, legislation that was introduced today by Homeland Security Chairman Peter King (R-NY) and Ranking Member Bennie Thompson (D-MS). The bill ensures that Congress will have an oversight role in the investigation of Dubai Ports (DP) World’s acquisition of P&O Worldwide, a $6.8 billon deal to sell control over the Ports of New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Miami, and New Orleans. Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chairman of the Bipartisan Pro- Life Caucus, made the following statement after the Supreme Court of the United States announced that it will hear the Bush administration’s appeal – which would reinstate the federal ban on partial-birth abortion – of an 8th Circuit Court decision: Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), dean of the New Jersey Congressional Delegation, expressed outrage over a $6.8 billon deal to sell control over the Ports of New York and New Jersey (as well as the ports of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Miami, and New Orleans) to Dubai Ports World, a state-owned United Arab Emirates (UAE) company. The agreement is scheduled to take place on March 2nd and was approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) last month. Read more

Not a moment too soon, Congress is turning up the heat on the cozy relationship that Internet giants Google, Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems conduct with China's cyber-police. Read more

Good morning and welcome to this hearing on the Internet in China. We are here to examine a problem that is deeply troubling to me, and I believe, to the American people: that American technology and know-how is substantially enabling repressive regimes in China and elsewhere in the world to cruelly exploit and abuse their own citizens. Read more

U.S. Rep. Christopher Smith (R-NJ), Chairman of the House Subcommittee which oversees Global Human Rights and International Operations and Vice Chairman of the Committee on International Relations, voiced strong support for S. Con. Res. 79, which expresses the sense of Congress that U.S. assistance should be withheld from the Palestinian Authority if the ruling majority party within the Palestinian Parliament continues to call for the destruction of Israel: Read more