Congressman Smith in October visited the all-volunteer Ridgeway Volunteer Fire Company in Manchester Township, which in 2015 was awarded a $210,000 AFG grant, and in 2016 was awarded a $455,000 AFG grant. In late August Ridgeway was been awarded a Federal Emergency Management (FEMA) Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) award for $455,910 to purchase a replacement pumper. "This federal grant will help improve fire protection in Manchester Township for many years,” said Smith, a long-time member... Read more

Congressman Chris Smith addressed runners and walkers at the "Pound the Pavement for Purple" event in Monmouth County, N.J. to fight pancreatic cancer, held on the Columbus Day Holiday Weekend in Neptune. "All these volunteers and organizers of this event know how deadly pancreatic cancer is," Smith said. "Events like this help support awareness, funding and research and give hope to patients and their families that one day there will be better treatments for pancreatic cancer." Smith spoke abo... Read more

Motivated by what they described as rising anti-Semitism in Europe, members of a Congressional bipartisan task force introduced legislation Friday that aims to increase Washington’s monitoring of anti-Jewish incidents and the steps taken by European governments to combat them. While much of the nation’s focus was trained on Hurricane Matthew smashing into the southeastern seaboard, Democratic representatives Nita Lowey, Steve Israel, Eliot Engel and Ted Deutch joined Republicans Chris Smith, Il... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04), Chair of the bipartisan Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) described China’s overall human rights record, detailed in the 2016 Annual Report released today, as “utterly disgraceful.” The report, the gold standard for Chinese human rights activists, concluded that the Chinese government’s efforts to silence dissent, suppress human rights lawyers, and control civil society, religious groups, and the Internet were broader in scope than during any other peri... Read more

At Georgian Court University in Lakewood, a new $1.9 million federal grant is helping students stay on track to timely graduation while improving overall retention rates. The U.S. Department of Education's Title III grant, payable over five years, is for GCU's Chart the Course program, which is designed to expand academic support services and bolster college completion."We established Chart the Course to help students needing non-credit skills development courses get back on track to graduating... Read more

Christians and other genocide survivors across Iraq and Syria will receive long needed relief if bipartisan legislation, introduced by Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04) Chairman of a House panel on Global Human rights, becomes law when Congress returns in November. Without compromising security screening to protect the United States, the Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act of 2016 (H.R. 5961) will give Christians, Yazidis and members of other persecuted religious and ethnic groups a new... Read more

By Chris Smith - Thursday, September 29, 2016 ANALYSIS/OPINION: Today marks 40 years since the life-saving Hyde Amendment was first enacted. This annual appropriations amendment stops taxpayer dollars from being used to fund most abortions and abortion coverage through government programs like Medicaid. Thanks to new analysis by the Charlotte Lozier Institute we now know that as many as two million children — some much older now — are alive today because of the Hyde amendment. Prior to enactment... Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04) delivered the following remarks during the debate in the House of Representatives on the motion to override President Obama’s veto of the Justice against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA): Mr. Speaker, with all due respect to the President of the United States, the central argument in his veto message accompanying the Justice against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA)—reciprocity—is weak, unsupported and egregiously flawed. The White House drafters of the veto messa... Read more

The families and friends of 9/11 victims will be given the opportunity to seek justice for the attacks as both houses of Congress voted to override the President’s veto of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (S. 2040), also known as JASTA, with the tremendous support of both parties. The law will overturn the legal barriers that have stood between these families and the ability to bring to light foreign governments and individuals who have aided and abetted terrorists, along with other... Read more

By David Levinsky, BCT staff writer - "The joint base is the lifeblood of the community. Winning the competition to base the KC-46 at (the joint base) is absolutely vital to the future economic health and well-being of our municipalities," the officials said in the letter. "This mission will help grow the local economy." The letter also cited the strong community ties between the base and surrounding schools and towns. Seventy community leaders have been named "honorary commanders" by the joint... Read more