Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and former Chairman of the US Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission) is scheduled to arrive in Tbilisi, Georgia, Tuesday, August 19, 2008. Read more

The Defense Department Inspector General (IG), in a report publicly released today, says that DOD officials “did not adequately plan for changing security and mission requirements” when it entered into seven private housing agreements two decades ago, including one for 300 housing units at Earle Naval Weapons Station. Read more

Congressmen Jim Saxton (NJ-3rd) and Chris Smith (NJ-4th), whose districts include Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, announced today that a record-breaking string of 10 new construction projects worth $179.1 million is included in the fiscal year 2009 Defense budget passed by the House today. The bill, H.R. 6599, passed by a vote of 409-4. Read more

Just one week before the Olympics kick off in Beijing, the House of Representatives approved legislation calling on the Chinese government to immediately “end abuses of human rights of its citizens” in order to ensure that the Olympic games take place “in an atmosphere that honors the Olympic traditions of freedom and openness.” Read more

With just two weeks to go to the Olympics, the House Foreign Affairs Committee has unanimously approved legislation calling on the Chinese government to immediately “end abuses of human rights of its citizens” in order to ensure that the Olympic games take place “in an atmosphere that honors the Olympic traditions of freedom and openness.” Read more

Gottlieb Holl worked nearly five decades at the Trenton train station. A prominent descendant of his said that he be lieves Holl, who also was a Trenton city council member, would have approved of what happened there yesterday. Read more

With three weeks remaining until the opening of the Olympic Games, China's Communist leadership is relentlessly pursuing a strategy doomed to failure. Through censorship, visa restrictions, intimidation and brute repression, China's leadership is trying to prevent any public expression by Chinese citizens or foreign visitors that conflicts with the image it wishes to project to the world -- that of a "harmonious" society. Read more

Father John C. Garrett, a local priest from Our Lady of Sorrows-St. Anthony’s Parish in Hamilton Township, NJ today delivered the opening prayer before the US House of Representatives. Read more

The House Committee on Foreign Affairs today favorably reported US Rep. Chris Smith’s (R-NJ) legislation to correct a significant and worsening pay inequity in the Foreign Service compensation system. Read more

A Member of the European Parliament from the Netherlands today announced plans to introduce legislation later this week modeled on U.S. Rep. Chris Smith’s (R-NJ) Global Online Freedom Act (HR 275). Read more