By Ocean County Leader Published November 5, 2025 Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Africa Subcommittee, has introduced new legislation commending President Donald Trump’s recent redesignation of Nigeria as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) and detailing steps for the U.S. State Department in response to religious persecution in Nigeria. The bill, H.Res.860, is cosponsored by Reps. Bill Huizenga (R-MI), Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), and Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL). It u... Read more

By Jim Lonergan Published November 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM FREEHOLD, N.J. — As the nation marks the 25th anniversary of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) — landmark federal legislation authored by U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) — Monmouth County officials are joining the fight locally by backing a New Jersey bill that would require rideshare drivers to complete anti-human trafficking training. “Since becoming New Jersey’s statewide provider for human trafficking victim services in ... Read more

By Eva Fu Published November 1, 2025 at 1:52:25 PM EDT WASHINGTON—Two prominent Republican lawmakers are calling on the Trump administration to side with a lawsuit accusing Cisco of aiding a brutal persecution in China. In a letter dated Oct. 29, Reps. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), who respectively lead the Congressional-Executive Commission on China and the House Select Committee on Chinese Communist Party, urged the administration to press the Supreme Court so the case cou... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) and senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sat down with Tony Perkins on Washington Watch with Tony Perkins to discuss President Donald Trump’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and to condemn the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s atrocious human rights and religious freedom record. He also responded to new polling showing strong support for restoring previous FDA-safeguards on the a... Read more

By Jeanne Wall Published October 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) marked the 25th anniversary of his Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA), landmark legislation that established the foundation of the United States’ modern fight against human trafficking. Right now as you are reading this, people are being tortured in unimaginable ways, many of them children. An estimated over 50 million people are trapped in modern slavery worldwide, 35% are childre... Read more

By Dake Kang and Byron Tau Published October 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) — Two prominent Republicans on Capitol Hill want the Supreme Court to allow a lawsuit to proceed against tech giant Cisco over allegations that the company’s technology was used to persecute members of the Falun Gong religious sect in China. In a Wednesday letter to the Trump administration’s top Supreme Court litigator, D. John Sauer, Reps. Chris Smith of New Jersey and John Moolenaar of Michigan urged the admi... Read more

By Elise Winland Published October 30, 2025 Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., marked the 25th anniversary of his landmark Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) this week by urging Congress to pass new legislation reauthorizing and expanding key federal anti-human trafficking programs. In an Oct. 28 press release, Smith, a Catholic and longtime human rights advocate, called on lawmakers to pass his recently authored Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act ... Read more

By Garance Burke, Dake Kang, and Byron Tau Published October 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM EDT U.S. lawmakers have tried four times since September last year to close what they called a glaring loophole: China is getting around export bans on the sale of powerful American AI chips by renting them through U.S. cloud services instead. But the proposals prompted a flurry of activity from more than 100 lobbyists from tech companies and their trade associations trying to weigh in, according to disclosure repor... Read more

By Bochen Han Published October 24, 2025 at 12:54 AM A group of US Republican lawmakers is urging President Donald Trump to confront Chinese President Xi Jinping at an expected summit next week about Americans they view as unjustly detained or barred from leaving China, framing Beijing’s use of exit bans and detention as “tools” to gain leverage. In a letter released on Thursday, three Republicans – Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Representatives Chris Smith of New Jersey and John Moolenaar of M... Read more

By Federal Newswire Published October 23, 2025 U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and U.S. Representative Chris Smith (R-New Jersey), who serve as Chair and Cochair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), have called on President Trump to directly address the cases of Americans detained in China during his next meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. In a letter, they urged the President to advocate for the release of Americans facing serious health issues while imprisoned, ... Read more