By Jonathan D. Salant | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com The $1 trillion infrastructure law signed last month by President Joe Biden will include $168.9 million for New Jersey next year to begin replacing lead water pipes and addressing drinking water contamination, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The new law includes funding to get rid of every lead water pipe, a project that in New Jersey alone will cost an estimated $2.3 billion to replace 350,000 lead service lines, accord...
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Last July, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and the Mississippi congressional delegation led 228 Members of Congress—44 Senators and 184 Members of the House of Representative—in submitting an amicus brief arguing that the U.S. Supreme Court should affirm the constitutionality of Mississippi’s law prohibiting abortions after 15 weeks.[1] On the steps outside the Supreme Court today during oral arguments before the Justices on Dobbs v. Jackson, Rep. Smith, co-chair of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, s...
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Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), author of the Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act, said the Biden Administration’s decision to remove Nigeria from the list of countries that violate religious freedom was “totally unjustified” and “a retreat from the noble and necessary fight to protect victims of religious persecution.” On November 15, the U.S. State Department released its annual “Countries of Particular Concern” and Nigeria was removed from the list. Genocide Watch has called Nigeria a...
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By Carl Comegno Gannett Staff Reporter - Master Sgt. Chris Joyce used to have to lay on his stomach to control the refueling boom of the Air Force's KC-135 refueling tankers. "Lying down was backbreaking," he said. As one of the first airmen trained to operate the boom on the Air Force's aging refueling tankers, Joyce was happy to see two new KC-46A Pegasus supertankers arrive at the Joint Base this week. Boom operators on the new tankers sit more comfortably at a console in front of computer s...
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A bipartisan infrastructure bill supported by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) to repair and rebuild dangerous roads, bridges, rail lines, tunnels, lead-contaminated water pipes and more will become law on Monday. “Above all, this legislation is necessary to better ensure the safety of the people in my district, New Jersey, and the nation,” Smith said. Officially known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the bill will fund hard infrastructure projects and boost commerce, jobs and economic gro...
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By Keith Sargeant | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com The body was sprawled across a patch of Vietnam jungle, lying where it had been cut down by bullets. The enemy was closing in quickly, but Sgt. Nick Martinez couldn’t leave his man behind, even if meant he’d be exposed in an open field. In the midst of a raging firefight, the man known as “Chico” sprinted to the fallen soldier and tossed down his rifle. He tugged at the shoulders, then tried to lift 200 pounds of dead weight. It wouldn’t budge. Sn...
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Project Freedom broke ground for a new development with 72 units, called “Freedom Village At Hamilton Woods” today located at Justice Samuel A. Alito Way &Whitehorse Mercerville Road. Congressman Chris Smith thanked members of Project Freedom for the tremendous work that has been done to make affordable, accessible and barrier free housing available to people. Congressman Smith met Executive Director, Norman Smith three and a half decades ago, he said Norman is not a guy you can say no to, that ...
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By Elizabeth Myers - Frank J. Uveges was a man who loved Coors Light, tending to his garden, and keeping in touch with his family all over the country. The man family members called “Uncle Frank” loved giving his children, nieces, and nephews dollar bills for good behavior. While he would give money to the people he loved, he was just as quick to collect money for the organizations he cared about like the Hibernians Club, The American Legion, and the Knights of Columbus. Frank loved Hamilton Tow...
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Congressman Chris Smith was a guest speaker at the newly renamed "Frank J. Uveges VFW Post 3525" on Christine Avenue in Hamilton on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. Smith presented Post Commander Juan Class with a U.S. flag flown over the Capitol in honor of Mr. Uveges. He also presented Mary Margaret Uveges of Hamilton, daughter of the late veteran, with a plaque that read, "Congratulations and recognition are extended to the family of Frank Uveges by U.S. Congressman Chris Smith, on the occasion of th...
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Below is the op-ed written by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-chair of House Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Anti-Semitism, on the recent explosion of anti-Semitism in the United States and around the world:
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