American people are deeply troubled to see U.S. technology and know-how used by repressive regimes in China and elsewhere in the world to cruelly exploit and abuse the citizens of those countries. While the Internet has opened up commercial opportunities and provided people all over the world with access to vast amounts of information, in China it has also become a malicious tool -- a cyber-sledgehammer of repression in the hands of the government. Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), dean of the New Jersey Congressional Delegation, co-sponsored the Foreign Investment Security Improvement Act, legislation that was introduced today by Homeland Security Chairman Peter King (R-NY) and Ranking Member Bennie Thompson (D-MS). The bill ensures that Congress will have an oversight role in the investigation of Dubai Ports (DP) World’s acquisition of P&O Worldwide, a $6.8 billon deal to sell control over the Ports of New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Miami, and New Orleans. Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chairman of the Bipartisan Pro- Life Caucus, made the following statement after the Supreme Court of the United States announced that it will hear the Bush administration’s appeal – which would reinstate the federal ban on partial-birth abortion – of an 8th Circuit Court decision: Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), dean of the New Jersey Congressional Delegation, expressed outrage over a $6.8 billon deal to sell control over the Ports of New York and New Jersey (as well as the ports of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Miami, and New Orleans) to Dubai Ports World, a state-owned United Arab Emirates (UAE) company. The agreement is scheduled to take place on March 2nd and was approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) last month. Read more

Not a moment too soon, Congress is turning up the heat on the cozy relationship that Internet giants Google, Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems conduct with China's cyber-police. Read more

Good morning and welcome to this hearing on the Internet in China. We are here to examine a problem that is deeply troubling to me, and I believe, to the American people: that American technology and know-how is substantially enabling repressive regimes in China and elsewhere in the world to cruelly exploit and abuse their own citizens. Read more

U.S. Rep. Christopher Smith (R-NJ), Chairman of the House Subcommittee which oversees Global Human Rights and International Operations and Vice Chairman of the Committee on International Relations, voiced strong support for S. Con. Res. 79, which expresses the sense of Congress that U.S. assistance should be withheld from the Palestinian Authority if the ruling majority party within the Palestinian Parliament continues to call for the destruction of Israel: Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith – Chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees Global Human Rights – today announced that for the first time, a hearing in the House of Representatives will be blogged live from Capitol Hill. Smith’s hearing on Wednesday will examine the operating procedures of major US internet companies in China and feature testimony from the US State Department, corporate representatives and NGO’s that focus on human rights. Read more

“The congressional federal funds that I directed to the Washington Township senior center are especially needed as the township has nearly doubled its population in the last ten years,” said Rep. Chris Smith who wrote a line item earmark for federal funds into the law for the Washington Township Senior Center in 2001. Read more

February 8, 2006MR. SMITH of New Jersey: Mr. Speaker, I rise tonight to set the record straight about significant misinformation that continues to be disseminated concerning an amendment I offered last summer. Planned Parenthood has refused to admit the truth about the true genesis of this amendment. Because Planned Parenthood boasts that “trust is the cornerstone of why people choose [them],” I cannot allow its lies to continue unanswered. And I believe it’s time Americans take a look at Plann... Read more