U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-4) today congratulated the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton (RWJ Hamilton) for being named a recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Created in 1987 to honor the memory of former Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige, the award is the nation's highest honor and only Presidential award for quality achievement by companies, agencies and organizations. RWJ Hamilton, which was honored in the healthcare category, is the first hospital in New Jersey and fourth in the country to receive the prestigious award. Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) won approval for his Amendment to H.R. 2601, The Foreign Relations Authorization Act, that will help thousands of women suffering from a painful condition called obstetric fistula. Smith, the Vice Chairman of the International Relations Committee, is the author of H.R. 2601 and offered the Amendment to expand the new healthcare program that will be created by his legislation. Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) today urged passage of H.R. 2601, a foreign relations bill that authorizes $22.3 billion for the U.S. Department of State, U.S. International broadcasting activities, and security assistance to America’s allies. Read more

In his testimony today to the BRAC Commission, Rep. Chris Smith (R-Hamilton Township) hailed the creation of the joint base McGuire/Ft. Dix/Lakehurst, urged that Ft. Monmouth be saved and attached to the joint base, and called the Pentagon’s plan to retire the NJ Guard’s 108th refueling fleet “a patently absurd suggestion.” Read more

Members of the U.S. Helsinki Commission praised today a resolution of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly strengthening the organization’s role in election monitoring. Read more

Helsinki Commission Co-Chairman Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ) successfully offered a resolution entitled “Combating involvement in trafficking in human beings and sexual exploitation and abuse by international peacekeeping forces” to the declaration of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Annual Session. Smith serves as the OSCE PA’s Special Representative on Human Trafficking. Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) led a bipartisan group of lawmakers calling on Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai to release dozens of political prisoners held on trumped up charges and to issue passports to individuals accepted by the US Refugee Resettlement Program. Read more

U.S. Rep Christopher Smith (R-NJ), Chairman of the House International Relations Committee’s Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations and Co-Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (the Helsinki Commission), called today for improved enforcement and reauthorization of the Torture Victims Relief Act (TVRA) of 1998. In a hearing before the Subcommittee, Chairman Smith said that the law had marked a watershed in human rights legislation, but that expanded implementation was urgently needed. Read more

The Committee will come to order. Today we are meeting to examine the government of Vietnam’s respect for human rights and religious freedom. Read more

With a commanding, overwhelming bipartisan vote of 192-233, the House of Representatives today soundly rejected a bid to subsidize the United Nation's Population Fund, which has refused to divest itself from coercive population and forced abortion programs in China. Read more