Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ)—who, with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), led a bicameral amicus brief defending the rights of First Choice Pregnancy Resource Centers—welcomed the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision this morning in First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Davenport, handing the faith-based pregnancy resource center network a victory and finding that a subpoena by the New Jersey Attorney General had violated their constitutional right to association. Smith, Co-Chair of the Congressional Pro-Life C... Read more

By Elise Winland Published April 29, 2026 Republican Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey, a Catholic, said April 28 that the North Korean human rights movement is facing increasing pressure from both inside North Korea and from recent policy shifts in South Korea. Speaking at an April 28 hearing dedicated to the prospects and challenges facing North Korea’s human rights movement, Smith described the regime as “what may well be the most comprehensively repressive government in the world.” He cited the... Read more

By Raymond Wolfe Published Wednesday, April 29, 2026 - 10:43 AM EDT WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously backed a group of faith-based pregnancy centers suing New Jersey for trying to force them to turn over massive amounts of donor information and confidential internal documents. The justices ruled that First Choice Women’s Resource Centers could challenge in federal court New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin’s subpoena demanding 28 categories of d... Read more

The following are excerpts of Co-Chairman Chris Smith’s (R-NJ) opening statement at the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission’s April 28th hearing, entitled “North Korean Human Rights Movement: Current Prospects and Obstacles”: Good afternoon and thank you to everyone joining us today – above all, our witnesses, Tara O and Suzanne Scholte, for their dedicated service to the people of North Korea, and for their unique knowledge of the North Korean human rights movement, which we will benefit from t... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission (TLHRC), today held a congressional hearing—his twelfth on North Korea—on North Korean human rights movements and the obstacles imposed by the South Korean government. In a dangerous development, Smith said, under President Lee Jae Myung, “South Korea is abandoning human rights and is beginning to look more like North Korea and Communist China. “Not only is Lee failing to advocate for the victims of the North Korean dic... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) issued the below statement following the third assassination attempt on President Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, April 25th: “President Trump was again courageous, strong, resolute, gracious and extraordinarily calm in the face of yet another attempt on his life at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner. “Secret Service brought down and arrested the heavily armed alleged perpetrator, but not without one agent getting shot, who was thankfully... Read more

By Frank Fang Published April 25, 2026 A group of lawmakers expressed solidarity with Falun Gong practitioners on April 25, the 27th anniversary of a peaceful protest in China whose effects still reverberate today. The peaceful gathering, now known as the April 25 appeal, took place in 1999. It was one of the largest protests in communist China’s recent history, as about 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered in Beijing, seeking to secure the release of detained adherents and the right to prac... Read more

By Gabrielle M. Etzel Published April 24, 2026 at 6:00am ET A coalition of anti-abortion legislators is calling for an end to human embryonic stem cell research at the National Institutes of Health, reviving a debate on the ethical use of aborted fetal materials in research after nearly two decades of inaction on the controversy. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), along with 16 other House members and five other senators, sent a letter on Friday to NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattac... Read more

By Virginia Grace McKinnon Published April 24, 2026 Congress is putting parties aside to extend the bipartisan protection and prevention of human trafficking in the United States. The Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act has been stalled in the House since February 2025. But Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., and Rep. Kwesi Mfume, D-Md., are now calling for more education to prevent human trafficking, increased funding to support victims, and stronger guard... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chair of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), and 21 other Republican members of Congress sent a letter to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, urging him to permanently end the agency’s funding of human embryo-destroying stem cell (hESC) research and terminate the NIH Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry (Registry). The letter, first obtained by the Washington Examiner, asserts that hESC research—which the NIH has ... Read more