Congressman Chris Smith, Vice Chairman of the House Committee on International Relations, has been joined by 30 bipartisan colleagues in reintroducing the Vietnam Human Rights Act today.
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The House International Relations Committee today passed a $15 billion AIDS bill that contains a key amendment authored by Vice Chairman Chris Smith that would bar any of the money in the bill from going to organizations that do not have policies opposing sex trafficking and prostitution. Smith, who wrote the nation’s first comprehensive law to address human trafficking and the sex slave industry, hailed the amendment as a win for human rights. “My amendment approved today addresses two of the m...
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The House of Representatives today passed legislation authored by Congressman Chris Smith that would expand the United State’s commitment to the peace process in Northern Ireland by authorizing $50 million over two years for the International Fund for Ireland.
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Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-4), a graduate of The College of New Jersey (then Trenton State College, class of 1975), announced today that the college has won a two-year federal education grant worth nearly $170,000 to fund a new international business program.
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Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-04) made the following statement today regarding news that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reissued a 113 parts per billion standard for materials containing PCBs that are deposited in waters off the coast of New Jersey.
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Congressman Chris Smith’s legislation that would help the poor – especially women – in developing nations obtain small business loans to improve their lives passed the International Relations Committee and was put on a fast track today.
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Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-4) made the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s decisions today regarding Internet Sex Offender Registries.
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Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-4) made the following statement today regarding news that the United States Postal Service has declared the Brentwood Post Office in Washington to be environmentally safe:
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