Citing his leadership role in numerous humanitarian efforts, The International Institute of New Jersey presented Rep. Chris Smith with the 2004 Leadership Award at its annual meeting in Jersey City. Read more

Chairman Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ) hailed the signing by President George W. Bush of the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-332). Chairman Smith worked with Senator Voinovich (R-OH) and Congressman Tom Lantos (D-CA), a holocaust survivor, to bring the bill to fruition. The Act will increase U.S. efforts to combat anti-Semitism through the establishment of a monitoring office, new reporting standards for acts of anti-Semitism both here and abroad, and the creation of a one-time global report on anti-Semitism. Read more

A key congressional panel that has the prime jurisdiction over US foreign policy today approved legislation authored by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) to combat Anti-Semitism through the creation of a monitoring office and new reporting standards for acts of Anti-Semitism both here and abroad. Smith coauthored the amendment with Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA) a holocaust survivor. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith (R-Hamilton), the author of our nation’s two laws aimed at combating modern-day human slavery, hailed today’s appointment of John Miller as the first Ambassador-at-Large for the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith (R-Hamilton), author of two landmark laws criminalizing human trafficking, proudly announced the award of nearly $100,000 for a New Jersey/New York anti-sex trafficking program operated by The Polaris Project. The funds were earmarked for this purpose at Smith’s request as part of the FY 2004 Commerce, Justice and State Appropriations Act. Read more

The full House of Representatives tonight passed legislation authored by Congressman Chris Smith, the Vice Chairman of the House International Relations Committee, that will withhold non-humanitarian U.S. Aid dollars from the dictatorial regime until real progress is made with regard to political and religious rights for the Vietnamese People. The bill passed by a vote of 323-45. Read more

Nearly 10 years after the tragic death of 7-year-old Megan Kanka at the hands of a convicted sex offender who lived across the street from her home, Congressman Chris Smith (R-Hamilton) joined the Kanka Family and the Megan Nicole Kanka Foundation today to announce new federal funding he established to help the foundation provide background checks on people involved with youth athletics. Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen are leading a group of bipartisan Members of Congress who joined in introducing legislation to provide $70 million over two years to prevent and treat obstetric fistula which afflicts more than 2 million women worldwide. Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-Hamilton), the author of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act and the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, released the following statement regarding the State Department’s 2004 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report that was released today. The report – now in its fourth year – was mandated by Smith’s first trafficking bill, which was signed into law in October 2000 (Public Law 106-386): Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, who recently helped lead the U.S. delegation to the historic Berlin Summit on anti-Semitism, met with President Bush today to report on legislative initiatives undertaken to implement recommendations made by the conference. Read more