Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester) meets with the US State Department’s top passport official—Assistant Secretary of Consular Affairs Rena Bitter—in his office on Tuesday, July 18. Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester) this week met with the US State Department’s top passport official—Assistant Secretary of Consular Affairs Rena Bitter—to elevate concerns surrounding the long delays and numerous issues his constituents have been experiencing while trying to obtain or renew a passport and to discuss the ... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester) greets Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the US Capitol on Wednesday, July 19. Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester), Co-Chair of the Israel Allies Caucus, today escorted Israeli President Isaac Herzog into the House of Representatives for his historic address before a joint session of Congress. An avid supporter of Israel and fierce advocate for aid to the US ally, Smith was chosen by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) along with a select group of his colleagues to u... Read more

While chairing a congressional hearing today on the dire state of religious freedom around the world, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) pressed the Biden Administration for removing Nigeria from the State Department’s list of countries that violate religious freedom, known as “Countries of Particular Concern” (CPC). “Time and time again, violators of religious freedom are given a pass in the State Department’s Country of Particular Concern designations, even when the US Commission on International Religi... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chair of the Congressional Pro-life Caucus, today expressed “profound gratitude” to the House Appropriations Committee for strengthening pro-life protections for unborn children in the Fiscal Year 2024 State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (SFOPS) Appropriations bill. “This bill will help ensure that the foreign programs the United States funds tangibly assist those who need care and do not aid and abet the poisoning, starving or dismembering of unborn chil... Read more

Pastor Pan Yongguang, who led a congregation of 64 Chinese Christians—including 32 children—from religious persecution in China to freedom in the United States, presents Rep. Chris Smith, Chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, with a signed picture of his congregation at a Capitol Hill press conference on Wednesday, July 12th. Smith worked with Pastor Yongguang and others to help his congregation—dubbed the “Mayflower Church”—flee China in 2019 and travel to South Korea’s Jej... Read more

Enes Kanter Freedom—the former NBA star who lost his amazing 11-year basketball career in the league for his courageous stand for human rights against the Chinese Communist Party—testifies at Rep. Chris Smith's congressional hearing on US corporate complicity with Xi Jinping's communist regime. The following are excerpts of opening remarks by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, at the congressional hearing he chaired today entitled "Corporate Compl... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) joins Martha MacCallum on Fox News to discuss New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy's egregious taxpayer-funded bailout for foreign offshore wind corporation Orsted with federal tax credits that were intended for ratepayers: Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chair of the House Global Health and Global Human Rights Subcommittee, today issued the following statement regarding Liberian efforts to expand abortion and promote population control: “The Liberian Senate must live up to its obligations to defend life at all stages from womb to tomb and must reject any changes to their national law that would weaken protections for unborn children, including proposals allowing unrestricted abortion until 18 weeks. Abortion takes the l... Read more

The following op-ed by The Washington Times Editorial Board discusses legislation authored by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) that would bar the importation of all goods containing cobalt, lithium and other rare earth minerals mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo through child exploitation and forced labor trafficking and would counter China’s control of strategic metals and minerals in the global supply chain: Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), the Chair of the House Global Human Rights subcommittee, today renewed his request to visit Bishop Rolando José Álvarez in Nicaragua: “I remain very concerned about the safety and wellbeing of Bishop Rolando José Álvarez amid inconsistent reports of his status in Nicaragua, and I renew my request to visit him there,” said Smith, who issued a letter to Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega last month requesting a meeting with Bishop Álvarez. “Bishop Álvarez is a compassiona... Read more