The House of Representatives has passed a $368 billion Fiscal Year 2004 Defense Appropriations bill that contains an additional $4 million to further support a critical aircraft carrier technology project being developed at Navy Lakehurst, Congressman Chris Smith, R-Hamilton, announced today. Read more

The International Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly, meeting in the Netherlands, has passed two resolutions authored by Congressman Chris Smith, Chairman of the United States Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (also known as the Helsinki Commission), that urge OSCE nations to redouble efforts to combat anti-Semitism and human trafficking. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith, Chairman of the Commission for Security and Cooperation in Europe (also known as the U.S. Helsinki Commission), is leading the U.S. delegation to the annual Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly taking place in Rotterdam this week. Read more

Just days after returning from a landmark anti-Semitism summit he helped establish in Vienna, Congressman Chris Smith, R-Hamilton, today ushered through the House a sweeping resolution that calls upon lawmakers, law enforcement officials, and educators to amplify their efforts to counter violence and hatred against the Jewish People and Faith. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith made the following statement today regarding the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s award of $1.2 million to Trenton for several Brownfield cleanup projects throughout the city. Read more

Congressmen Chris Smith (R-Hamilton) and Jim Saxton (R-Mount Holly) have asked the chief of the Army Corps of Engineers and the heads of the military’s other contracting and engineering entities to take immediate actions to prevent undocumented employees from working as contract employees at our nation’s military installations. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith is in Vienna today as part of a State Department delegation representing the United States at the first-ever OSCE international conference tasked with further developing and strengthening practices to combat anti-Semitism. Read more

President George Bush signed into law legislation authored by Congressman Chris Smith, Vice Chairman of the House International Relations Committee, that expands and enhances a loan program that predominantly benefits women living in impoverished developing nations. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith, Vice Chairman of the House Committee on International Relations and the prime author of the nation’s landmark law against human trafficking, made the following statement today regarding the release of the State Department’s annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, which monitors human trafficking in other nations. Read more

More than $7 million to support continued research and development into two critical aircraft carrier initiatives being done at Navy Lakehurst have been added to the Fiscal Year 2004 Defense Authorization bill through a provision offered by Congressman Chris Smith (R-Hamilton). The bill is expected to pass the House late today or early tomorrow. Read more