Congressmen Chris Smith (NJ-04) and Frank Wolf (VA-10) met with a group of leading human rights advocates Friday to discuss the importance of Internet freedom. The human rights advocates have endorsed Smith’s bill, the Global Online Freedom Act (GOFA), H.R. 2271, and discussed actions to promote the bill.
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Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-4th) calls on leading internet firm Google to sever its dealings with the Chinese government that enable it to spy on its own people, and called on House leaders to finally vote on the Global Online Freedom Act (GOFA), a bipartisan bill that passed multiple House Committees in the previous Congress but was not brought up for a floor vote.
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Congressman Chris Smith today expressed sorrow for the loss of lives and homes in the nation of Haiti following Tuesday’s devastating earthquake. Smith said that he is in touch with the U.S. State Department and its Office of Consular Affairs and its American Citizens Service to assist constituents from his district desperate to make contact with relatives in Haiti.
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Rep. Chris Smith, who joined with David Goldman and his son Sean before they left Brazil for the United States, said he was “ecstatic” that father and son were finally together as they should be.
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Congressman Chris Smith arrived in Brazil today. Final expected votes of the year were cast on the House floor last night, after which Smith, a Senior Member of Congress, departed for Dulles International. Today he met with U.S. State Department officials and David Goldman, who also took a flight last night to Brazil.
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The heartbreaking stories of left-behind parents whose children are held in other countries were laid out before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission at a hearing on international child abduction and parental access that also included judicial and legal experts, the head of the Center for Missing and Exploited Children and other witnesses.
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The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission (TLHRC) will hold a hearing on international child abduction and parental access, including the cases involving David Goldman of Tinton Falls, Monmouth County N.J., and other left behind parents, said US Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04), an executive member of the TLHRC.
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Less than 10 days after Chinese human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong testified before a Congressional panel, he was arrested by Chinese police just hours after President Obama departed China, prompting human rights activists to hold an emergency press conference to draw attention to his plight. “Last week, human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong and other extraordinary human rights defenders asked for a meeting in Beijing with the leader of the free world who just happens to be this year’s Nobel Peace ...
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