In an Oval Office ceremony held today, President Bush signed H.R. 2297, the Veterans Benefits Act of 2003, a bill composed of 7 titles with 39 substantive provisions, authored by Congressmen Chris Smith (NJ-4), Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. All totaled, the new law authorizes $1 billion over the next ten years for new and expanded benefits for disabled veterans, surviving spouses, and children. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-4), Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, today hailed passage of a record $2.8 billion increase for veterans medical care services this year. Smith, who had fought all year to ensure the record level of funding, said that today’s action is “another example of Congress fulfilling its obligations to meet the legitimate needs of our nation’s veterans.” Read more

Congressman Chris Smith (R-Hamilton), Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, helped broker a historic compromise today that will fix a 100-year-old problem and provide hundreds of thousands of veterans with full disability payments for the first time ever. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith, (R-Hamilton), Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, joined local educators, students, and veterans at Brookdale Community College this morning to mark the final phase-in of a veterans college education law he authored that increases the GI Bill by a record 46 percent. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith (R-Hamilton), Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, today announced that more than $1.5 million has been allocated by the Department of Veterans Affairs for expansion and enhancement of the Brig. Gen. William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Wrightstown, Burlington County. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith, Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, made the following statement about today’s opening of the Fort Monmouth Veterans Clinic. Read more

In the final negotiations before passage of the House Republican budget, America's veterans won significant funding increases for FY 2004. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-4), Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, announced today that work has begun to open a new veterans healthcare clinic at Fort Monmouth by this spring. Read more

After leading the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee through two years of unparalleled and historic legislative accomplishments, Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-4) was reelected to a second two-year term as Chairman of the Committee by his Republican colleagues. He is also the most senior member of the state’s 13-member House of Representatives delegation. Read more