Invited weeks ago to Seton Hall University’s conference on human trafficking, Rep. Chris Smith, the prime author of the nation’s landmark Trafficking Victims Protection Act worked through the emergency budget session in Washington and delivered his keynote address by phone to the audience of students, faculty and local advocates huddled at the South Orange, New Jersey campus. “As late as this morning I was still hoping to join the outstanding program in person,” said the senior foreign policy la... Read more

By Chris Smith - - Thursday, January 18, 2018 Doctors today routinely diagnose and treat a myriad of conditions, illnesses and diseases suffered by society’s littlest patients — unborn babies and newborns — significantly enhancing both their health and longevity. Abortionists, on the other hand, take a different approach. They dismember and chemically kill unborn children for profit. For several decades, babies have survived late term abortions. A Philadelphia Inquirer article 37 years ago (Augu... Read more

Congressman Smith (R-NJ) presented an American flag flown over the U.S. Capitol to Bill Kelly, a 93 year-old U.S. Navy veteran and hero of the U.S.S. Laffey during World War II, on his birthday this week. Kelly was joined by his family members, local Wall Township Committeeman Kevin Orender, and members of the U.S.S. Laffey Association. Read more

“The offensive words used by President Trump require an apology. As chair of the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations, I have taken numerous trips to Central American and African countries and have chaired over 85 hearings on issues related to Africa alone. I have visited South Sudan twice within the last 18 months to investigate violence and famine and find solutions. What I have consistently taken away has been the innate goodness a... Read more

After Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced that Florida would be exempt from his proposal to open almost all of the U.S. outer continental shelf to oil and gas exploration and drilling, Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) said that other states with serious concerns about offshore drilling should be exempt as well. Read more

BY APP STAFF WRITER JERRY CARINO - For decades Pat Smith has sounded the alarm on the problems faced by chronic Lyme disease sufferers, from unreliable testing to a dearth of treatment options. Now she is making that case to her most important audience yet: Congress. The Wall resident has garnered a spot on the 14-person congressional working group that could recommend wholesale changes to federal Lyme disease policy. The group began meeting last month in Washington, D.C. Pat Smith, with U.S. Re... Read more

Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) spoke on the House Floor on Tuesday in defense of Iranians who are protesting the corruption of their regime and demanding greater respect for human rights. Read more

Following the Administration’s proposal to open over 90 percent of the U.S. outer continental shelf to oil and gas exploration and development—including off the coast of New Jersey—Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) stated his serious concern and opposition to the move. Read more

BY DAVID FOSTER Trentonian Staff Writer - Democrats and Republicans are hardly getting along lately. But when it comes to the Jersey Shore, New Jersey’s elected officials from both parties are letting President Donald Trump know to keep oil drilling away from the beach. “What President Trump announced yesterday is nothing less than dropping a ticking-time bomb off our coast,” Gov.-elect Phil Murphy said Friday at a press conference in Long Branch, referencing the havoc wreaked by the BP oil spil... Read more

The State Department on Thursday issued its annual designations of countries with the most egregious records of abusing religious freedom, yet it omitted Vietnam from the list despite its severe violations of religious freedom, an omission that is unacceptable, said Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chair of the House global human rights subcommittee. Read more