Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, chairs an emergency congressional hearing on Nagorno-Karabakh, where 120,000 ethnic Armenians have been sealed off from food and medicine and are being starved to death by the government of Azerbaijan. At an emergency congressional hearing chaired by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) today, a leading international legal expert warned the United States is at risk of becoming complicit in an ongoing genocide in Nagorno-Karabakh, w... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester) today issued the following statement on President Biden’s reported plan to send some of the tens of thousands of economic migrants who have recently arrived in New York City to Atlantic City International Airport: “President Biden’s plan to relocate economic migrants to Atlantic City International Airport and allow this growing crisis to spiral out of control by failing to secure our border is absolutely unconscionable. Biden’s disastrous open-border policies and... Read more

US Rep. Chris Smith, Chair of the United States congressional Global Human Rights subcommittee and the Co-Chairman of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission and of the Congressional Poland Caucus, urges the US government to support Poland’s call for discussions with Germany on Poland’s losses in World War II. A leading voice pushing for human rights globally, Chairman Smith has long advocated on behalf of victims of human rights abuses, including that their property be restored and compensation... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) today issued the following statement on the Biden Administration holding its first offshore wind auction in the Gulf of Mexico as Hurricane Idalia barrels toward the United States: “With the Gulf Coast bracing for its first major hurricane threat of the season, the Biden Administration continues its aggressive push for offshore wind industrialization as it foolishly ignores the real dangers of installing thousands of wind turbines—massive structures the size of the Chrys... Read more

At a House Foreign Affairs Committee roundtable discussion today, families of the 13 servicemembers who were tragically killed during the US evacuation from Afghanistan shared heartbreaking personal accounts of the excruciating pain and agony they have endured over the past two years as they continue to seek answers from the Biden Administration over its egregiously flawed withdrawal. “You have touched all of our hearts in the most profound way,” Rep. Smith, a senior member of the House Foreign... Read more

At a ceremony at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JB-MDL) today, Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester) joined Colonel Elizabeth Hanson, Colonel Anthony Smith, other top military officials and servicemembers of the 305th Air Mobility Wing to mark the grand opening of the new KC-46 two-bay hangar that will help house and maintain the Joint Base’s next generation refueling tanker jets. “Special thanks to the distinguished Commander of the 305th Air Mobility Wing Colonel Elizabeth Hanson and Colonel Ant... Read more

By Senior Airman Matt Porter 87th Air Base Wing The 305th Air Mobility Wing held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its newly commissioned ‘Dock 46 two-bay hangar’ at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., on August 24, 2023. The event concludes four and a half years of planning and 240,650 accident-free man-hours after its initial groundbreaking on December 3, 2018. A military construction project valued at nearly $54 million, the hangar will serve as a mission-critical asset in the KC-46A Pegasus'... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, speaks outside the Chinese embassy in Washington, DC on Wednesday, August 23, 2023. Outside the Chinese embassy in Washington, DC today, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, together with a group of Korean human rights defenders called on the Chinese government not to proceed with the forced repatriation of an estimated 2,000 North Korean refugees who face severe huma... Read more

In a letter to Verizon, Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester) this week urged the telecommunications giant to “heed the genuine economic, aesthetic, environmental and health concerns of the community” and rescind its plans to install twenty 30-foot towers along the boardwalk in Belmar as the corporation’s wrongful lawsuit against the town has opened a new opportunity to halt the project. “I write to express my strong opposition to Verizon’s plans to install imposing, unsightly 5G infrastructure along... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chair of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, today issued the following statement in response to the ruling by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that, pending consideration by the Supreme Court, would reinstate the stronger protections for the chemical abortion pill mifepristone that were in place before 2016. “Mifepristone was created to starve unborn babies to death and poses significant risks to the mother’s health. While these dangers should have been reason enoug... Read more