U.S. Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) issued the following statement after the Department of Labor released its state-by-state jobs report for the month of June. The report shows that since June of 2004, New Jersey has added nearly 53,000 jobs. In addition, New Jersey’s unemployment has dropped dramatically since June of 2004 – when it stood at 4.8 – to 4 percent. Read more

Ten people in New Jersey were indicted today with violating the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, authored into law by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ). The law focused on the most severe forms of trafficking in human beings and provided law enforcement tools to eliminate slavery, and particularly sex slavery, by a comprehensive, balanced approach of prevention, prosecution and enforcement, and victim protection. Read more

The House of Representatives today approved a comprehensive Foreign Relations Authorization bill (H.R. 2601) authored by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) by an overwhelming bi-partisan vote of 351-78. The bill authorizes $22.3 billion for the U.S. Department of State, U.S. International broadcasting activities, and security assistance to America’s allies. Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-4) today congratulated the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton (RWJ Hamilton) for being named a recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Created in 1987 to honor the memory of former Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige, the award is the nation's highest honor and only Presidential award for quality achievement by companies, agencies and organizations. RWJ Hamilton, which was honored in the healthcare category, is the first hospital in New Jersey and fourth in the country to receive the prestigious award. Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) won approval for his Amendment to H.R. 2601, The Foreign Relations Authorization Act, that will help thousands of women suffering from a painful condition called obstetric fistula. Smith, the Vice Chairman of the International Relations Committee, is the author of H.R. 2601 and offered the Amendment to expand the new healthcare program that will be created by his legislation. Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) today urged passage of H.R. 2601, a foreign relations bill that authorizes $22.3 billion for the U.S. Department of State, U.S. International broadcasting activities, and security assistance to America’s allies. Read more

In his testimony today to the BRAC Commission, Rep. Chris Smith (R-Hamilton Township) hailed the creation of the joint base McGuire/Ft. Dix/Lakehurst, urged that Ft. Monmouth be saved and attached to the joint base, and called the Pentagon’s plan to retire the NJ Guard’s 108th refueling fleet “a patently absurd suggestion.” Read more

Members of the U.S. Helsinki Commission praised today a resolution of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly strengthening the organization’s role in election monitoring. Read more

Helsinki Commission Co-Chairman Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ) successfully offered a resolution entitled “Combating involvement in trafficking in human beings and sexual exploitation and abuse by international peacekeeping forces” to the declaration of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Annual Session. Smith serves as the OSCE PA’s Special Representative on Human Trafficking. Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) led a bipartisan group of lawmakers calling on Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai to release dozens of political prisoners held on trumped up charges and to issue passports to individuals accepted by the US Refugee Resettlement Program. Read more