Congressmen Chris Smith (NJ-04) and Jim Saxton (NJ-03) have asked New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine to reconsider his plan to eliminate the Middlesex portion of the Monmouth, Ocean, Middlesex (MOM) Passenger Rail Line. Read more

The fiscal year (FY) 2008 Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) Program to benefit fire departments and nonaffiliated Emergency Medical Services (EMS) organizations is now open for applications said U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ). Read more

New Jersey’s Republican Congressmen today sent a letter to New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine expressing their opposition to his proposed toll and restructuring plan. U.S. Congressmen Frank LoBiondo (NJ-02), Jim Saxton (NJ-03), Chris Smith (NJ-04), Scott Garrett (NJ-05), Mike Ferguson (NJ-07) and Rodney Frelinghuysen (NJ-11) joined in calling for Governor Corzine to “seek alternatives to (his) proposal which would focus on containing the explosion of state spending over the last eight years.” Read more

US Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee released the following statement today on the passing of Chairman Tom Lantos (D-CA): Read more

Included as part of President Bush’s fiscal year 2009 budget request to Congress released yesterday is $15.4 million for the development of an Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) test facility at Navy Lakehurst. Read more

A bipartisan group of US lawmakers, led by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) have petitioned the Norwegian Nobel Committee to select jailed human rights activist Dr. Oscar Biscet for the Nobel Peace Prize. Reps. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Mario Diaz-Balart, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, and Albio Sires cosigned a letter with Smith and sent it to the Committee on January 31. Read more

Mr. Smith of New Jersey Mr. Speaker, Today, 35 years after the infamous Supreme Court decisions legalizing abortion on demand throughout pregnancy, we mourn the estimated 50 million innocent girls and boys whose lives were cut off by abortion—a staggering loss of children’s lives, equal to six times the total number of people living in my home state of New Jersey. Someday future generations of Americans will look back on us and wonder how and why such a rich and seemingly enlightened society, s... Read more

U.S. Rep Chris Smith (R-NJ) who traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) earlier this month ahead of the Goma Peace Conference today made the following statement regarding the continued peace talks which convened on January 7th. Read more

At an event last night commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the Soviet Jewry movement and the twentieth anniversary of the March to Washington in December 1987, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) received, “The Soviet Jewry Liberty Award” from the American Jewish Committee for his work with the Russian Jewish community. Read more

U.S. Rep Chris Smith arrived here Thursday launching a four-day human rights mission that will focus on combating human trafficking, child soldiers and sexual violence while at the same time underscoring US commitment to critical peace negotiations due to convene on January 7, 2008. Read more