Congressman Chris Smith, a leading advocate in Congress of life-enhancing and life-affirming biomedical research, testified before a key Congressional committee today to ask for millions of additional dollars in federal funds to support key research and patient support projects. Read more

Seeking to ensure New Jersey receives its fair share of federal homeland security dollars, the state’s Congressional delegation is meeting today with Homeland Security Undersecretary Asa Hutchinson who is charged with administering much of the funds provided by Congress for state and local homeland security efforts. Read more

Congressmen Chris Smith and Ed Markey – the Co-Founders and Co-Chairmen of the Bipartisan Congressional Alzheimer’s Task Force – today introduced legislation to modify a Medicare provision that keeps thousands of disabled persons unfairly locked up inside of their homes. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-4) will again host his Service Academy information session for Fourth District middle and high school students interested in learning more about serving our nation through service in a United States Service Academy. Read more

The House International Relations Committee today held a rare recess hearing calling on Cuban President Fidel Castro to free scores of human rights activists recently sentenced to draconian jail terms because of their pro-democracy views. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith, whose district includes the Hamilton Post Office that has been closed since October 2001 because of anthrax contamination, made the following statement today regarding the Postal Service’s plans for decontaminating and reopening the building. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith, Vice Chairman of the House Committee on International Relations, today fought on the House floor to secure passage of a resolution condemning the regime of Fidel Castro in Cuba for its gross violations of human rights. Read more

The House International Relations Committee Europe Subcommittee today approved Vice Chairman Chris Smith’s (NJ-4) Belarus Democracy Act of 2003. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith, Vice Chairman of the House Committee on International Relations, has been joined by 30 bipartisan colleagues in reintroducing the Vietnam Human Rights Act today. Read more

The House International Relations Committee today passed a $15 billion AIDS bill that contains a key amendment authored by Vice Chairman Chris Smith that would bar any of the money in the bill from going to organizations that do not have policies opposing sex trafficking and prostitution. Smith, who wrote the nation’s first comprehensive law to address human trafficking and the sex slave industry, hailed the amendment as a win for human rights. “My amendment approved today addresses two of the m... Read more