Congressman Chris Smith (R-Manchester) was the Keynote Speaker at the 2023 State Convention Department of New Jersey Jewish War Veterans (JWV) He met with outgoing State Commander Selina Kanowitz, and newly sworn in State Commander Chuck Greenberg at the June 25 event in Toms River. View slideshow at left. JWV national leadership attended the event, including National Commander Nelson Mellitz and National Vice Commander Barry Lischinsky, as well as outgoing Department of New Jersey War Veterans ... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chair of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, issued the following statement on the one-year anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson decision: “Dobbs is the game changer—and God-willing, the beginning of the end of the culture of death. It is an engraved invitation to policy makers at every level including Congress and the President to protect unborn children from the violence of abortion. The sacred burden to double down on our vital life-saving work has never been cleare... Read more

Congressman Chris Smith (R-Manchester) addressed a crowd gathered at the New Jersey State House Annex in Trenton, New Jersey Saturday at the New Jersey Right to Life's event marking the one-year anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade. The event featured numerous speakers, including elected federal and state officials, medical professionals, pastors and pro-life leaders and advocates for unborn children from across the Garden State who came to speak up for the unborn. Speakers focused on n... Read more

By Jeanne Wall Published June 24, 2023 at 10:14 PM Mission accomplished-80 years later: A longtime Middletown resident, SSgt. Thomas P. Culkin, eighty years after his B-17 was shot down over Belgium, and he became a prisoner of war in World War II, is now honored, 37 years after his death, with not one, but two Purple Heart Medals. On Monday at the Middletown headquarters of Congressman Chris Smith, a special ceremony was held with members of Culkin's family that included his children, a son-in... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) delivers opening remarks while chairing a congressional hearing exposing the rampant antisemitism and anti-Israel bias at the United Nations and international organizations around the world. Leading human rights defenders and experts today sounded the alarm over the rampant antisemitism and anti-Israel bias that pervades the United Nations and international organizations across the globe at a congressional hearing chaired by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) that brought the criti... Read more

Due to security restrictions at the naval base, advanced registration is required. To register for the event, click here or call Smith’s office at 732-504-0567. A United States Service Academy Information Night will be held on Wednesday, July 12th from 5:30 to 7:00pm at Naval Weapons Station Earle, 201 Highway 34 in Colts Neck, NJ, announced Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester). The event will provide important information for high school and college students—and their parents, counselors or teacher... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, chaired a congressional hearing today calling attention to the plight of ethnic Armenians who are being blockaded and threatened by the government of Azerbaijan. “Our country simply cannot accept a risk of ethnic cleansing or genocide in Nagorno-Karabakh,” said Smith, who called for the United States and international community to commit to supporting Nagorno-Karabakh before it is too late. Smith’s hearing—entitled “Sa... Read more

Carly Baldwin, Patch Staff Eighty years after his B-17 was shot down over Belgium and he became a prisoner of war in World War II, the late SSgt. Thomas P. Culkin, a longtime Middletown resident, was honored with a Purple Heart. In a ceremony held in Middletown on Monday, Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester) presented two of Culkin's daughters with the Purple Heart he longed for and tried to get, but was denied by the U.S. Defense Department. “This is a proud day for the family, and their history,” s... Read more

Jerry Carino Asbury Park Press On May 14, 1943, Thomas Culkin was a 21-year-old gunner on a B-17 bomber that got shot down over Belgium. The crash killed two crewmates, but Culkin survived with a shrapnel wound in his back. That soon became the least of his problems. Culkin was captured by German soldiers and imprisoned, beginning a two-year ordeal during which he escaped and injured his spine and leg while jumping from a train, was beaten nearly to death by the Gestapo upon being recaptured, an... Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith presented posthumous Purple Heart medals to Thomas Culkin's daughters Kathy Maurer and Joan Manley during a ceremony at his district office in Middletown Monday, June 19, 2023. Culkin was a prisoner of war in Germany during World War II and a longtime Middletown resident. THOMAS P. COSTELLO/ASBURY PARK PRESS Read more