By Dake Kang and Byron Tau Published October 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) — Two prominent Republicans on Capitol Hill want the Supreme Court to allow a lawsuit to proceed against tech giant Cisco over allegations that the company’s technology was used to persecute members of the Falun Gong religious sect in China. In a Wednesday letter to the Trump administration’s top Supreme Court litigator, D. John Sauer, Reps. Chris Smith of New Jersey and John Moolenaar of Michigan urged the admi... Read more

In an October 29th letter to the U.S. Department of Justice, two U.S. lawmakers known for combating human rights abuses in China urged U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer to allow the case against Cisco Systems, Inc. to proceed and determine whether the giant U.S. tech firm custom-designed a tool to aid the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in a systematic persecution of Falun Gong religious believers. Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (... Read more

By Elise Winland Published October 30, 2025 Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., marked the 25th anniversary of his landmark Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) this week by urging Congress to pass new legislation reauthorizing and expanding key federal anti-human trafficking programs. In an Oct. 28 press release, Smith, a Catholic and longtime human rights advocate, called on lawmakers to pass his recently authored Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act ... Read more

By Chris Smith Published October 30, 2025 Religious persecution is festering and exploding around the world. What has been unconscionable for decades, centuries, has gotten worse. According to Open Doors 2025 World Watch List: “More than 380 million Christians suffer high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith.” Forty-five years ago, during my first term in Congress, I read Tortured for Christ by Romanian pastor Richard Wurmbrand. As so many of you know, it is the true story of... Read more

By Garance Burke, Dake Kang, and Byron Tau Published October 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM EDT U.S. lawmakers have tried four times since September last year to close what they called a glaring loophole: China is getting around export bans on the sale of powerful American AI chips by renting them through U.S. cloud services instead. But the proposals prompted a flurry of activity from more than 100 lobbyists from tech companies and their trade associations trying to weigh in, according to disclosure repor... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) speaks at an anti-human trafficking press conference, alongside now-Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, in 2014. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), a senior lawmaker and tireless advocate in the global fight against human trafficking, commemorated the 25th anniversary of the enactment of his Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA)—landmark legislation to confront the global scourge of human trafficking—and called upon the U.S. House of Representatives to immediat... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) has co-sponsored legislation—the Keep SNAP Funded Act of 2025 (HR 5822)—to appropriate unallocated federal funds to ensure the uninterrupted delivery of benefits under the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) during the current shutdown. “I, alongside many of my Republican colleagues in the House—including Reps. Jeff Van Drew and Tom Kean—voted to keep the government up and running so that we could avoid the potentially tragic outcomes posed by unnecessary go... Read more

By Rep. Chris Smith and Amb. Sam Brownback - Monday, October 27, 2025 Illustration on Communist China’s war on religion and scripture by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times OPINION: In October, Chinese security agents swept through cities from Beijing to the coast, raiding the Zion Church network and detaining its founder, Pastor Jin “Ezra” Mingri. The point was plain — in Xi Jinping’s China, devotion that isn’t Communist Party-approved is treated as a political problem to be solved by police.... Read more

By Bochen Han Published October 24, 2025 at 12:54 AM A group of US Republican lawmakers is urging President Donald Trump to confront Chinese President Xi Jinping at an expected summit next week about Americans they view as unjustly detained or barred from leaving China, framing Beijing’s use of exit bans and detention as “tools” to gain leverage. In a letter released on Thursday, three Republicans – Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Representatives Chris Smith of New Jersey and John Moolenaar of M... Read more

By Federal Newswire Published October 23, 2025 U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and U.S. Representative Chris Smith (R-New Jersey), who serve as Chair and Cochair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), have called on President Trump to directly address the cases of Americans detained in China during his next meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. In a letter, they urged the President to advocate for the release of Americans facing serious health issues while imprisoned, ... Read more