Reps. Smith (R-NJ) and Mfume (D-MD) speak at their Capitol Hill press conference on the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Act of 2025 (HR 1144) on April 23, 2026. On World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, Reps. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Kweisi Mfume (D-MD) announced that they will be co-chairing the new, bipartisan Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Protection and Prevention Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives. Reps. Smith and Mfume also noted that the...
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By Leo Briceno, Elizabeth Elkind Published July 24, 2026 at 8:32pm EDT Nineteen House Republicans are demanding answers from New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill on how approximately 6,600 self-identified noncitizens were registered to vote and cast 400 ballots in what the state described as a software failure. The group put the question to Sherrill in a letter published on Friday afternoon. "Despite those answers, a software failure reportedly transmitted their information for voter registration betw...
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Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chair of the House Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism, today introduced legislation to permanently prohibit the United States government from making any voluntary or assessed contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which has a lengthy history of espousing and distributing antisemitic rhetoric and materials. Republican Reps. Darrell Issa (CA-48), Mike Lawler (NY-17), Tom Kean (NJ-07), A...
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By Jonathan D. Salant Published July 23, 2026 The United States would be banned from making donations to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency under legislation that Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) introduced on Thursday. “For more than 23 years, I have been sounding the alarm on UNRWA and its longstanding record of antisemitism and Jew-hatred,” stated Smith, co-chair of the House Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism. “UNRWA is one of the chief drivers of conflict between Palestinians...
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Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) issued the below statement following New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill’s announcement that a “software error” within the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission’s voter-registration system resulted in approximately 6,600 non-U.S. citizens being registered to vote between June 2023 and June 2024, with 400 of those individuals going on to cast ballots in official elections: “This disturbing revelation out of Trenton—perhaps only the tip of the iceberg—confirms what Republican...
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Today, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) applauded the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of the Stop Insider Trading Act (HR 7008). “Today, I supported—and the House passed—critical legislation to enhance transparency and accountability for Members of Congress and their families, as well as bolster the security of our elections,” said Smith, an original cosponsor of HR 7008. The Stop Insider Trading Act will unequivocally prohibit Members, their spouses, and their dependent children from purchasing ...
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By Tessa Gervasini Published July 22, 2026 at 3:52 PM ET Nearly five dozen U.S. lawmakers sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) urging a federal investigation into the deaths of “the D.C. Five,” the five allegedly late‑term aborted babies recovered from a Washington, D.C., abortion clinic four years ago. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, along with more than 50 other GOP lawmakers, called on Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to “comprehensively investigate ...
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By Calvin Freiburger Published Wednesday, July 22, 2026 - 12:06 PM EDT WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — More than 50 Republican members of Congress are urging Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche to investigate the remains of unborn babies discarded years ago by an abortion facility in the nation’s capital for possible cases of infanticide that so far have evaded justice. In 2022, the group Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) discovered the remains of five aborted babies (warning: gr...
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Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), and 55 other Republican lawmakers sent a letter to Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, urging the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to thoroughly investigate whether the horrific deaths of five late-term, preborn babies at a D.C. abortion clinic could be attributed to the crimes of infanticide or partial-birth abortion. Rep. Chris Smith, Co-Chair of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus...
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