Tuesday evening, Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-04) joined the National Alzheimer's Association at a local "listening session" held in Wall Township. The "listening sessions" are being held around the country so that lawmakers can receive direct input from those who care for persons with Alzheimer’s Disease as the federal government finalizes a congressionally mandated national strategy to address the "escalating Alzheimer's crisis.” Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04), the chairman of Congressional-Executive Commission on China, commented on Vice President Joe Biden’s stated support for China’s brutally enforced one child per couple policy. Read more

Published in the Wall Patch: Education on the causes, treatments and strategies for caring for people afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease was the main suggestion from a group of concerned caregivers assembled at Town Hall Tuesday. The meeting was called as an information-gathering session while crafting a national Alzheimer’s plan following the passage by Congress earlier this year of the National Alzheimer’s Project Act, signed by President Barak Obama in January. The law aims to create a natio... Read more

Congressman Chris Smith, a long-time human rights advocate in Congress and senior member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, has been named chairman of the “Congressional-Executive Commission on the People’s Republic of China,” a congressionally-mandated, bipartisan panel made up of Members of the House and Senate and Presidential appointees serving in the Administration. Smith was appointed to the position by House Speaker John Boehner. “China has attempted to set itself up as the altern... Read more

Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-04) was the guest on C-SPAN's national Sunday morning program, "Newsmakers" with host Greta Brawner. The crisis in Sudan and Somalia, as well as the hopes and prospects of treatment of children in the U.S. and around the world who suffer from hydrocephalus (often called "water on the brain") with a new procedure developed by an American doctor from Boston Children's Hospital, were the topics Smith discussed with Brawner and journalists Shaun Tandon of AFP and Howard L... Read more

Ethnic cleansing, murders, rapes and the growing humanitarian crisis in the Southern Kordofan region of Sudan were described in grisly detail by witnesses testifying at a congressional hearing on Thursday. Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-04) convened the emergency hearing as chairman of the House congressional panel that oversees African issues and international human rights. Calls were made for the Obama Administration and U.S. State Department, to act to stem the escalating violence. More than 70,... Read more

Research and treatments for hydrocephalus developed by an American doctor working in Uganda that could benefit children around the world were the topics at a congressional hearing held Tuesday before of the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights chaired by Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-04). “Hydrocephalus Treatment in Uganda: Leading the Way to Help Children” featured testimony on an innovative new treatment for hydrocephalus developed in Africa, and its potential applicatio... Read more

(AFP) – July 28, 2011 The United States pressed Japan to let parents see children snatched by estranged partners, saying it would not tolerate loopholes as Tokyo moves to resolve the longtime source of tension. Western nations have voiced concern for years over citizens' struggles to see their half-Japanese children. When international marriages break up, Japanese courts virtually never grant custody to foreign parents, especially men. Hoping to ease a rift with allies, Prime Minister Naoto Kan ... Read more

At a congressional hearing Thursday, the U.S. State Department will reveal its efforts to return to the U.S. more than 2,400 abducted American children and enforce the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. The hearing, to be held by Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-04), chairman of the House congressional panel that oversees international human rights, follows the emotional testimony at a May hearing of distraught ‘left-behind’ parents, who in most cases have never s... Read more

The fate of more than 2,400 abducted American children was the emotional topic at a congressional hearing today held by Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-04), chairman of the House congressional panel that oversees international human rights. Top officials of the U.S. State Department explained U.S. administration efforts to return the children to the U.S. A heavy emphasis was placed on Japan, which is not one of the 85 signatory nations of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Ch... Read more