Among the security, infrastructure and emergency services items in the multi-faceted federal homeland security funding bill passed by Congress today, is one provision specifically designated to provide some assistance and relief to the City of Trenton as it continues its ongoing work to fortify the water filtration plant and mitigate flooding and contamination risk.
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U.S. Rep. Chris Smith announces that a key House appropriations subcommittee will include funding to allow the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to take a greater role in ongoing efforts to fix environmental hazards posed by Wreck Pond in Monmouth County.
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U.S. Rep. Chris Smith announced that the House of Representatives has adopted an amendment he offered to the National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 2647) to require a Government Accountability Office (GAO) study of the Navy’s controversial proposal to open the Laurelwood housing complex on Naval Weapons Station Earle (NWS Earle), the largest munitions depot on the East Coast.
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U.S. Rep. Chris Smith said a report by the U.S. State Department was released today on the human trafficking of women, children and laborers around the world shows some improvements over the 2008 report, but also demonstrates there is much more work to do.
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Congressman Chris Smith today addressed his colleagues from the floor of the House of Representatives to offer his support of H.Res. 529, a resolution condemning the June 10th violent attack on the Holocaust Memorial Museum as a despicable murder and anti-Semitic act that took the life of Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns.
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U.S. Rep. Chris Smith said that the actions of a judge on Brazil’s Supreme Court earlier this week which have blocked the return home of an American boy is an outrageous interference that demands a U.S. response.
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Congressman Chris Smith took to the House floor tonight to bring the plight of a nine-year-old American boy held in Brazil to the attention of the Congress.
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Congressman Chris Smith said the Navy’s issuance of a record of decision (ROD) for a plan to build a public road to the Laurelwood Housing Area on Earle Naval Weapons Station is yet another in a series of mistakes at Navy Earle.
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Congressman Chris Smith, Ranking member of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, addressed the World Uyghur Congress today about human rights and the treatment of the Uyghur people and the government of China.
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