The winners of the 2023 Fourth Congressional District Art Competition were announced by Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester) at a Monday night award ceremony held at Hackensack Meridian Ocean University Medical Center in Brick. “Tonight, we acknowledge, respect and honor these young artists’ extraordinary talent unleashed on canvas or some other medium and the years of nurturing, devotion and discipline it took to perfect that talent by parents, teachers and friends,” said Smith, who sponsors the an... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester) with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the White House for the signing of the historic Abraham Accords in September 2020. With the strong support and vote of Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester), the House of Representatives on Tuesday night overwhelmingly passed House Resolution 311 to encourage the expansion and strengthening of the historic Abraham Accords that the US signed with Israel in 2020 under President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “This critica... Read more

A top Biden Administration official stonewalled Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) at a congressional hearing on offshore wind today when pressed with studies that call into question the safety and survivability of more than 3,400 offshore wind turbines slated for the Jersey Shore. “Can these offshore wind turbines—each the size of the Chrysler building in New York City—sustain a category 2 or 3 hurricane?” asked Smith, who raised concerns about the massive offshore wind turbines in letters to the Biden A... Read more

With the strong support and vote of Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester), the House of Representatives today passed the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act (HR 734)—legislation that withholds Title IX federal funds from schools that allow biological men to compete on women’s sports teams. “The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act will help ensure that female athletes who play their sport competitively are safeguarded from radical ideologies seeking to redefine gender and allow biologi... Read more

“Attention now turns to the Fifth Circuit Court, which is set to hear oral arguments on the merits of the case regarding the Federal Drug Administration’s (FDA) illegal approval process for mifepristone,” said Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) in response to today’s Supreme Court ruling to allow the chemical abortion drug to be available in the interim. “Mifepristone was created to starve unborn babies to death—that’s how it works—and poses significant risks to the mother’s health,” said Smith, Co-Chair ... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) today called on President Biden to meet with Geng He and Sophie Luo—the wives of two renowned human rights defenders detained by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—after they testified at a congressional hearing that the White House has not reached out to either of them regarding the statuses of their husbands, Gao Zhisheng and Ding Jiaxi respectively. “That has to change,” said Smith, who chaired the House Foreign Affairs Global Human Rights subcommittee hearing and vowe... Read more

Enforcement action and public scrutiny will be brought to bear against American companies who seek to skirt the law by profiteering from forced labor, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chairman of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), warned today at the first congressional hearing on the implementation of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA). “The United States is in a survival struggle with an authoritarian state that seeks global hegemony and the fundamental displacement o... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chair of the House Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism, today issued the following statement on “Yom HaShoah”—Holocaust Remembrance Day: “Today, we remember the over 6 million Jewish men, women and children who were murdered at the hands of hate in the Holocaust and mourn in solidarity with their surviving family members and loved ones. We also pay tribute to the countless survivors who suffered the unfathomable evil perpetrated by the Nazi regime and en... Read more

In a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) blasted the Biden Administration’s recent decision to bar a community of Catholic priests and brothers from providing care to US servicemembers and veterans at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, saying the outrageous move calls into question “the Department of Defense’s commitment to respecting the rights of conscience for those who volunteer to serve our nation.” “On April 4, 2023, a cease-and-desist letter was i... Read more

In a letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ)—Chairman of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China—is requesting a visa to visit Xinjiang to personally assess claims touted by a top Chinese diplomat in a bizarre late-night email to his office that “China fully protects the rights and interests of all ethnic minorities, including Uyghurs in Xinjiang.” “The Chinese Embassy’s Minister-Counselor for Congressional Affair in Washington, Zhou Zheng, stated that ‘China ful... Read more