Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement on April 10, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), co-chair of the Helsinki Commission, introduced a resolution along with a bipartisan group of members from the Ad Hoc Committee on Irish Affairs to reaffirm U.S. Congressional support for the agreement, and expressed concern about the failure to adequately implement certain aspects of it. “The Good Friday Agreement brought peace to Northern Ireland, a tremendous achievement,” said Rep. Smith. “Yet a... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Dean of the New Jersey congressional delegation, led a letter signed by the entire New Jersey delegation to Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke on Friday, reiterating their unified opposition to the Administration’s proposal to open waters off the state’s coast to oil and gas drilling and exploration. In addition, the Members sent Secretary Zinke a transcript of a Feb. 14 public hearing in Hamilton, NJ where citizens organized the event and expressed their concerns abo... Read more

The following is a statement of Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) on the decision of an administrative law judge on Thursday against the proposed Jersey Central Power & Light power line in Monmouth County: This was the right decision that took seriously and upheld the legitimate concerns of local residents against the Monmouth County Reliability Project (MCRP). I have had the opportunity to walk the route of this proposed project and stand in the schoolyards and backyards which would lie in the shadows of... Read more

Representatives Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Betty McCollum (DFL-Minn.) introduced a three-year reauthorization of their Global Food Security Act, reaffirming the United States’ commitment to fighting hunger and poverty worldwide. The bipartisan Global Food Security Reauthorization Act of 2018 (H.R. 5129) ensures that the vital Feed the Future Initiative continues through 2021. This new bipartisan legislation builds upon Representatives Smith and McCollum’s Global Food Security Act of 2016, which fo... Read more

Yesterday members of the New Jersey delegation, including U.S. Reps. Chris Smith (NJ-04) and Tom MacArthur (NJ-03), met with Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke regarding the Administration’s proposal to open over 90 percent of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf to oil and gas exploration and drilling. The members expressed their serious concerns over the proposal to Zinke and urged him to exempt New Jersey from the list of states for the proposed offshore drilling expansion. “We made it quite cl... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ,), chair of the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations, issued the following statement ahead of planned marches in the Democratic Republic of the Congo this Sunday calling for a peaceful democratic transition of power: “I stand in solidarity with the citizens of the Democratic Republic of the Congo who will march for in support of a peaceful democratic transition of power this Sunday,” said Smith. “I call upon the ... Read more

Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) on Wednesday will participate in the Capitol Hill presentation of the “Outstanding 9-1-1 Call Center Award” to Monmouth County’s 911 Center for its “overall excellence in serving the public.” Read more

Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) addressed a rally of local citizens, business owners, environmental organizations and elected officials at the Hilton Gardens on Route 130 in Hamilton, NJ on Wednesday from his D.C. office, in between scheduled votes. The citizen rally “Valentine’s Day of Ocean Emotion” was formed to draw attention to environmental and business concerns over the Administration’s proposal to open over 90 percent of U.S. coastal waters—including off the New Jersey coast—to oil and g... Read more

A provision to give houses of worship access to critical federal disaster relief was signed into law Feb. 9, 2018 as part of the Bipartisan Budget Act. The provision reflects legislation originally authored by Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ), in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. Read more

“The arrests and charges today clearly underscore the very serious nature of international parental child abduction and, I hope, the U.S. government’s increasing determination to reunite abducted American children with their left behind parents,” said U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, author of the Sean and David Goldman Child Abduction Prevention and Return Act of 2014 (P.L. 113-150) to provide government support and assistance to kidnapped children and their left behind parents. Smith’s comments came in ... Read more