US Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Senior Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health today gave excerpts of the following statement during House floor debate of HR 5501 the “Tom Lantos and Henry Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008 which passed the House of Representatives today 308-116: Read more

For his continued legislative action, US Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) received three different awards just this week from the American Ireland Fund, the Republic of Hungary, the North American Council of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Humane Society of the United States. Read more

The American Ireland Fund, one of the nation’s largest supporters of programs to promote peace, culture and charity throughout Ireland will honor U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), with the prestigious American Ireland Fund Leadership Award, etching his name alongside former distinguished recipients and Irish advocates including: Frm. President Bill Clinton, Frm. Prime Minister Tony Blair, Sen. John McCain, Sen. and Frm. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, and internationally famed U2 singer Bono among many other notable honorees. Read more

Congressmen Chris Smith (NJ-04) and Jim Saxton (NJ-03) have asked New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine to reconsider his plan to eliminate the Middlesex portion of the Monmouth, Ocean, Middlesex (MOM) Passenger Rail Line. Read more

The fiscal year (FY) 2008 Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) Program to benefit fire departments and nonaffiliated Emergency Medical Services (EMS) organizations is now open for applications said U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ). Read more

New Jersey’s Republican Congressmen today sent a letter to New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine expressing their opposition to his proposed toll and restructuring plan. U.S. Congressmen Frank LoBiondo (NJ-02), Jim Saxton (NJ-03), Chris Smith (NJ-04), Scott Garrett (NJ-05), Mike Ferguson (NJ-07) and Rodney Frelinghuysen (NJ-11) joined in calling for Governor Corzine to “seek alternatives to (his) proposal which would focus on containing the explosion of state spending over the last eight years.” Read more

US Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee released the following statement today on the passing of Chairman Tom Lantos (D-CA): Read more

Included as part of President Bush’s fiscal year 2009 budget request to Congress released yesterday is $15.4 million for the development of an Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) test facility at Navy Lakehurst. Read more

A bipartisan group of US lawmakers, led by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) have petitioned the Norwegian Nobel Committee to select jailed human rights activist Dr. Oscar Biscet for the Nobel Peace Prize. Reps. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Mario Diaz-Balart, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, and Albio Sires cosigned a letter with Smith and sent it to the Committee on January 31. Read more

Mr. Smith of New Jersey Mr. Speaker, Today, 35 years after the infamous Supreme Court decisions legalizing abortion on demand throughout pregnancy, we mourn the estimated 50 million innocent girls and boys whose lives were cut off by abortion—a staggering loss of children’s lives, equal to six times the total number of people living in my home state of New Jersey. Someday future generations of Americans will look back on us and wonder how and why such a rich and seemingly enlightened society, s... Read more