For over 60 years, the GI Bill has helped our servicemen and women pay for college, and in turn, helped employers find the talent they need in the ever-changing workplace. Since its inception, more than 20 million veterans and veterans’ dependents have participated in GI Bill education and training programs. Read more

U.S. Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) today called for a program that provides critical brain injury research and care for servicemembers and veterans to be funded at the highest requested level. Read more

The following are excerpts from U.S. Representative Chris Smith’s (R-NJ) Address to the 2006 American Legion National Convention: Read more

U.S. Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ), former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Veterans Affairs, today told thousands of delegates at the American Legion’s national convention that a grateful nation must remain committed to meeting the needs of veterans, and called on them to help pressure the Vietnamese government to end human rights abuses as Congress prepares to take up legislation granting that nation favorable trade status. Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Veterans Affairs, today announced he has cosponsored legislation, the Veterans Identity Protection Act (HR 5464) to help assist 26.5 million Veterans who have been put at risk by the identity theft that recently occurred at the Department of Veteran Affairs. Read more

On Monday, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith will speak and be honored at the dedication of a monument at Arlington National Ceremony to honor those who fought in the Battle of the Bulge – the largest land battle in which the US Army has ever participated. Smith is being recognized for authoring legislation that eventually led to the placement of the new monument. One of the most decisive battles in the war in Europe, the Battle of the Bulge began on December 16, 1944, when the German Army attempted to spli... Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations, today issued the following statement after Congressman Lane Evans (D-IL) announced that he would retire at the end of the 109th session: Read more

Worried that House Republican leaders are poised to oust Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) as chairman of the Veterans Affairs Committee, a wide array of veterans groups is warning that such a move would send the wrong signal to U.S. troops abroad. Read more

The House of Representatives late last night approved two more bills authored by Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Chris Smith (NJ-4) that will expand programs to aid homeless veterans and strengthen legal protections for veterans and servicemembers. Read more

New Jersey Congressman Chris Smith (4th District),Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, today called for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to spend $125 million to modernize the East Orange VA Medical Center. Smith, whose Committee oversees VA’s $30 billion health care budget, also asked VA to consider establishing a new full-service medical center for southern New Jersey. Read more