Congressman Chris Smith, (R-Hamilton), Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, joined local educators, students, and veterans at Brookdale Community College this morning to mark the final phase-in of a veterans college education law he authored that increases the GI Bill by a record 46 percent. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith (R-Hamilton), Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, today announced that more than $1.5 million has been allocated by the Department of Veterans Affairs for expansion and enhancement of the Brig. Gen. William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Wrightstown, Burlington County. Read more

The House of Representatives has passed a $368 billion Fiscal Year 2004 Defense Appropriations bill (HR 2658) that specifically directs $4 million to further support a critical aircraft carrier technology project being developed at Navy Lakehurst, Congressmen Chris Smith (R-Hamilton) and Jim Saxton (R-Mt. Holly) announced today. The bill passed the House 356-67. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith (R-Hamilton) made the following statement on yesterday’s federal court ruling invalidating the National Do-Not-Call registry and today’s subsequent action by Congress to ensure the registry can be implemented. Smith voted in support of the measure, which passed 412 to 8. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith (R-Hamilton) today announced that two local municipalities have received substantial grants from the federal Homeland Security Overtime Program (HSOP) that was established to help local governments pay some of the increased costs that have arisen due to increased concerns about the threat of terrorism. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith (R-Hamilton), the author of the landmark U.S. law against human trafficking (PL 106-386), praised President Bush for his leadership and his call today for member states of the United Nations to step-up efforts to eradicate modern-day human slavery. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith (R-Hamilton), joined by several of his colleagues in Congress, today officially launched the newly formed Congressional Spina Bifida Caucus, which will help patients and families who suffer from the nation’s most common permanently disabling birth defect. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith (R-Hamilton), author of the U.S.’s law against human trafficking, today welcomed the continued progress foreign nations are making in the war against human slavery due, in large part, to the threat of economic sanctions Smith’s law (PL 106-386) provides for. “When my law was being debated in Congress more than three years ago, there were many people who did not want to name names of offending nations because they felt doing so would offend. At the time I argued that the n... Read more

Congressman Chris Smith, Vice Chairman of the House International Relations Committee, today spoke out in support of Dr. Charles Li, a U.S. citizen and Falun Gong practitioner who has been imprisoned in China since early this year. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith (R-Hamilton) announced today that Lakewood Township, the third largest municipality in the Fourth District, has secured a $375,000 Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grant from the federal government. Read more