Rep. Chris Smith, co-chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, delivered excerpts of the following remarks at a hearing he chaired on "The Communist Party's Crackdown on Religion in China" on November 28: The current assault on religion in China is the most comprehensive attempt to manipulate and control religious communities since the Cultural Revolution. What is happening under Xi Jinping’s leadership is a systematic effort to transform the very nature of some religious communi... Read more

BY VIN EBENAU - Jersey Shore Congressman Chris Smith's (NJ-4th District-R) legislation to provide humanitarian relief to genocide victims in Iraq and Syria and hold ISIS perpetrators accountable passed the house on Tuesday night and now heads to President Donald Trump's desk to be signed into law. The Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act of 2018 (HR-390) will authorize and direct the administration to... Fund entities, including faith-based ones, that are providing humanitarian,... Read more

BY ISAAC AVILUCEA - U.S. Rep. Chris Smith toured Trenton Water Works’ digs Monday, as part of his renewed pledge to help the troubled water utility secure federal funding to offset millions in improvement projects and system upgrades. Smith stopped by The Trentonian to chat about the two-hour-long guided tour, led by a convoy from the mayor’s office, that started out at TWW headquarters and wound to the water filtration plant on the Delaware River. The longtime Republican congressman, elected th... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith’s (R-NJ) legislation to provide humanitarian relief to genocide victims in Iraq and Syria, and hold ISIS perpetrators accountable—HR 390, the Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act of 2018—passed the House on Tuesday night and now heads to the President’s desk to be signed into law, after over two years in the making. “When genocide or other atrocity crimes are perpetrated, the United States should direct humanitarian, stabilization, and recovery aid to enable the... Read more

On Tuesday evening, the House passed Rep. Chris Smith’s (R-NJ) legislation, HR 6207, the Democratic Republic of the Congo Democracy and Accountability Act of 2018, which would promote free and fair elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). “This bill could not be more timely,” Rep. Smith, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on Africa, stated on the House Floor before the legislation was voted on. “Next month, just before Christmas, the country is scheduled to vote ... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith through the years 11 PHOTOS 12:37 a.m. EST Nov. 18, 2018 Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., left, addresses the media in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday, April 9, 2001, about aspects of the human rights situation within Cuba. At center Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla. At right Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, R-Fla. AP PHOTO/DONALD STAMPFLI Chris Smith, the Republican incumbent candidate for New Jersey's 4th congressional district, addresses a gathering after he was called the winner over Democ... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith today introduced legislation that could supplement the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) major medical care programs with outdoor recreational therapy for military veterans. “Studies have shown that outdoor recreation can also produce holistic, therapeutic benefits for veterans, and this is yet another treatment option that we should consider for veterans who want it,” said Smith. “Our military service men and women deserve support in every way, and we should explore all avenu... Read more

It’s time to develop a better test for Lyme disease. That was the most pressing recommendation of a report to Congress by a federal working group convened to address tick-borne diseases. The 100-page report, the first of three over a four-year period, is crucial because it represents consensus on how to deal with Lyme after decades of disagreement among government officials and medical experts. The discord, advocates for Lyme patients say, caused an explosion of cases throughout the country. REL... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), co-chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, today introduced bipartisan legislation condemning the internment of over a million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim ethnic minorities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and calling for an end to arbitrary detention, torture, and forced renunciation of faith occurring in the region. Smith was joined on the legislation by lead Democratic cosponsor Rep. Thomas Suozzi (D-NY) and eight other Members of Co... Read more

The 2018 Tick-Borne Disease Working Group Report to Congress—the very first report by the new HHS Working Group—confirms what Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and other advocates have long warned of, that incidents of Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases are increasing and that more federal attention to the problem is needed, Smith said on Wednesday. “As this report clearly shows, Lyme disease is spreading—in the overall number of cases, in the geographic area of occurrences, and in the number of d... Read more