On Wednesday, the House voted overwhelmingly to pass an important bill to help prevent school violence, in the wake of the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) co-sponsored the legislation. “In any discussion on education policy and gun laws, there should be no higher priority right now than school safety,” Rep. Smith stated. “This bill provides critical funding of evidence-based prevention strategies, to ensure our students receive th... Read more

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

BY APP Staff Writer David Willis - An administrative law judge has sided with a residents group in its battle against Jersey Central Power & Light's proposed high-voltage $111 million power line between Aberdeen and Red Bank. The decision by Judge Gail Cookson comes nearly two years after JCP&L proposed to build a 10-mile transmission line alongside the North Jersey Coast Line train tracks. It would have put a 230-kilovolt line in close proximity to hundreds of homes in Middletown, Holmdel, Hazl... 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

Congressman Chris Smith (NJ04), founder and co-chair of the bipartisan Congressional Coalition on Heart and Stroke, was asked by the Hill Newspaper to contribute a piece on heart health for its recent pull out section on heart disease. This article originally ran on page 24 of the Hill Newspaper's Feb. 28, 2018, edition and can be found online at http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/375916-fighting-americas-no-1-killer Click here to read online version or read article below. Read more

“China in Africa” was the title of a hearing chaired by Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ), chair of the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations, on Wednesday, March 7. Testifying at Smith’s hearing were: Gordon Chang, author of “The Coming Collapse of China,” Joshua Meservey, senior policy analyst on Africa and the Middle East at the Heritage Foundation, Scott Morris, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, and Anita Plummer, Ph... 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

By Jonathan D. Salant of Star Ledger/NJ.com Don't expect to see oil rigs off the Jersey Shore. That was the message the state's Republican lawmakers walked away with following a meeting Tuesday with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. "If it's not off the table, it will soon be off the table," said Rep. Chris Smith, R-4th Dist., one of four GOP representatives from the state who joined other Atlantic Coast lawmakers and Zinke at the U.S. Capitol. That was the message the state’s Republican lawmakers ... 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