Amendments sponsored by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) that condemn increasing incidents of anti-Semitism, and call on countries to clearly define anti-Semitism and more effectively prosecute hate crimes, were adopted by an international assembly of lawmakers on Monday.
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An international parliamentary assembly of leading lawmakers from 57 countries today adopted a comprehensive resolution, sponsored by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), to create trafficking-free communities.
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By Bradford Betz | Fox News Russian delegates at a bilateral meeting in Berlin denied that their country meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and gave no opinion on President Donald Trump, the lawmaker who led the 13-member U.S. delegation said Saturday. U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said he brought up the meddling issue during the meeting, but the members of Russia's Duma who attended dismissed the claims as the work of “just a few Rus...
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On the sideline of a four-day meeting of over 300 lawmakers from 57 countries, Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04) led a meeting today with lawmakers from the Russian Duma (parliament) to discuss what Smith called "highly contested human rights issues.”
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By Jonathan D. Salant NJ Advance Media for NJ.com -- Rep. Chris Smith, going where President Donald Trump has refused to, pressed Russian officials Saturday on their interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Smith, who led the 13-member U.S. delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and other U.S. lawmakers met for close to two hours with Russian legislators in Berlin. The meeting lasted almost twice as long as originally sch...
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Just nine days before President Trump is set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) will lead a U.S. congressional delegation in a bilateral meeting with Russian lawmakers in what could be a new era of U.S.-Russia relations. Of note, Smith was part of the first U.S. Helsinki Commission delegation to visit Moscow, which was critical to efforts to open up regular discussions on human rights with leaders of the then-Soviet Union. The 2018 meeting will include Smith a...
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Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) on Friday met with officials at the Center for Health Education, Medicine, and Dentistry (CHEMED) in Lakewood and commended the center for providing valuable health care for the community. “This outstanding center has for years been meeting the medical and dental needs of all local residents, regardless of their ability to pay,” Smith said. “It is what true community health care looks like—I want to offer my sincere gratitude for the work they have done, and contin...
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Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), prime author of the landmark Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-386) praised the Trump Administration designation of China as a Tier 3[1] trafficking offender—the worst ranking possible—in the State Department’s annual 2018 Trafficking In Persons (TIP) Report mandated by Smith’s law. “This report makes clear that China’s government is an enabler of human trafficking,” said Smith, who is also the co-chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on Chin...
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The robust Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Department of Defense spending bill—that passed the House on Thursday with Rep. Chris Smith’s (R-NJ) strong support—provides comprehensive support to U.S. military service men and women, with much-needed funding for new equipment, military readiness programs, and health care. “This critically-important legislation ensures our troops have the funding needed to maintain operations and helps restore military readiness,” Smith said. “Years of stopgap defense spendin...
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“I am extremely disappointed in today’s Supreme Court decision in the Janus v. AFSCME case that threatens to weaken the ability of public-sector unions to represent the interests of working people. “Unions help even the playing field and make both the workplace and America itself more just and fair—of significance, union workers make $200 more per week than nonunion workers. And although women still do not earn as much as men in the workplace overall, women who are union workers make an average ...
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