January 11, 2007MR. SMITH of New Jersey: Mr. Speaker, by now most of my colleagues know that on Sunday a team of scientists from Wake Forest University and Harvard Medical School announced the stunning news that they had discovered a new, readily available source of potentially life saving stem cells derived exclusively from amniotic fluid. For those of us who passionately support expanding ethical stem cell research to effectuate cures and mitigate disease, news of this breakthrough was partic...
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Minimum wage workers around the country will receive a long-overdue pay raise if legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives today becomes law, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) said.
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A new risk-formula distribution for federal homeland security grants could result in more money for New Jersey’s critical infrastructure if legislation considered by the U.S. House of Representatives today becomes law, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) said.
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January 9, 2007Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, I thank my good friend from Florida for yielding. Mr. Speaker, when terrorism crashed through our national borders and claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 Americans, including over 50 men and women from my district in New Jersey who were in the World Trade buildings that day, I advocated early and consistently for a commission to chronicle the lessons learned from the 9/11 tragedy and to develop a well-informed, thoughtful strategy to reduce the...
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U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) announced today that he has reintroduced legislation which aims to promote free expression and a free flow of information on the Internet by preventing U.S. companies from aiding regimes who restrict access to the Internet.
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