The official announcement early Wednesday morning that opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari had won the presidency marked the first time since the return of democracy in 1999 that an elected Nigerian Administration had been defeated at the polls and turned over power to the opposition. Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-04), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations noted the historic nature of the presidential elections in Nigeria... Read more

Asbury Park Press Story by Erik Larsen - Each year, about a thousand American children are the victims of international child abduction, according to Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J. Smith, who is chairman of the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations, led a hearing last week to find out how the U.S. State Department is enforcing the "Sean and David Goldman Child Abduction Prevention and Return Act," which was sponsored by the congressman and si... Read more

With votes still not completely tallied on Monday after Nigeria’s 2015 presidential election this past weekend, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan and former General Muhammadu Buhari, his main challenger, to urge their supporters to continue to avoid violence despite problems with the voting process, the extension of voting into a second day and... Read more

Bipartisan legislation to take on global hunger and help the world’s poorest countries develop better agricultural practices has been introduced by Congressman Chris Smith (R-N.J.), chairman of the House panel that oversees global health initiatives. The legislation, the Global Food Security Act of 2015 (H.R. 1567), is designed to help prevent starvation and famine, and reduce hunger and malnutrition by enabling countries to feed their own people. Smith is joined by original co-sponsors Rep. Bet... Read more

A congressional hearing to help the thousands of American children and brokenhearted “left-behind” parents from across the U.S. who are victims of international child abduction and to find out how the U.S. State Department is using the 2014-enacted “Sean and David Goldman Child Abduction Prevention and Return Act” to bring them home, was held Wednesday. “Every year, approximately 1,000 American children are unlawfully removed from their homes by one of their parents and taken across internation... Read more

Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-04), Cochairman of the Bipartisan, Bicameral Congressional Task Force on Alzheimer's Disease, today announced the introduction of the "Health Outcomes, Planning, and Education (HOPE) for Alzheimer‘s Act" of 2015. Smith’s legislation will provide Medicare coverage for a care planning session for patients newly-diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, family caregivers or legal representatives. “Upon receiving an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, patients and their families are frequen... Read more

At a hearing convened today by a congressional panel that oversees global human rights issues, Chairman Chris Smith (NJ-04) and other lawmakers examined the mounting risks to European Jewish communities and the actions that countries – including the United States – should take to address the threats faced by their Jewish citizens. “Once again, like the 1930s, European Jews live in fear,” testified Ambassador Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress. “In my travels to all of these... Read more

Today, U.S. Reps. Chris Smith (NJ-04), Nita Lowey (NY-17), Eliot Engel (NY-16), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL-27), Kay Granger (TX-12), Steve Israel (NY-03), Peter Roskam (IL-06), and Ted Deutch (FL-21) announced the launch of the Bipartisan Taskforce for Combating Anti-Semitism in the House of Representatives. Together, these Members will serve as co-Chairs of the Taskforce in the 114th Congress and spearhead initiatives aimed at addressing the alarming rise of anti-Semitism around the world. The Bip... Read more

A congressional hearing to help the thousands of American children and brokenhearted “left-behind” parents from across the U.S. who are victims of international child abduction and to find out how the U.S. State Department is using the 2014-enacted “Sean and David Goldman Child Abduction Prevention and Return Act” to bring them home, will be held Wednesday. “This hearing will examine the State Department’s overall implementation of the “Sean and David Goldman Child Abduction Prevention and Retur... Read more

Since the much-publicized violence in the Middle East during the summer of 2014, the Jewish communities of Europe have been under heightened threat of terrorist attacks—underscored by the recent attacks in Paris and Copenhagen. The rise of anti-Semitism in Europe will be the topic of a congressional hearing planned for Tuesday, March 24 by U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04), Chairman of the House congressional panel that oversees global human rights issues. “After Paris and Copenhagen: Responding to ... Read more