The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to open a new technology center near Fort Monmouth with plans to hire 167 civilian post employees who have chosen not to move to Maryland when the post closes in two years, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, NJ-04, announced yesterday.
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House co-chairs for the Congressional Task Force on Alzheimer’s Disease, Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), called on the presidential candidates to consider the devastating impact of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias on those diagnosed, their loved ones, and federal and local healthcare systems at a Capitol Hill briefing today.
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Published: Aug. 21, 2008, 7:55 p.m. By The Associated Press Two little girls from Monmouth County were reunited with their father today and could be returning home within a few days after being trapped by violence in the Republic of Georgia for two weeks. Ashley and Sophia Evans arrived at the U.S. Embassy in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi after a six-hour ride in a vehicle with French Ambassador Eric Fournier. There, they met their father, who had flown to Tbilisi, and also got McDonald's Hap...
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Published: Aug. 20, 2008, 10:38 p.m. The Associated Press By Irakli Gedenidze/Associated Press New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith met today with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili as the congressman sought to bring home two young girls stuck there -- even as the girls' family worried over Russian troops only miles away. Reached on the phone in Georgia, Smith said he was meeting with anyone he could -- Georgian officials, U.S. officials, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and ...
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Gottlieb Holl worked nearly five decades at the Trenton train station. A prominent descendant of his said that he be lieves Holl, who also was a Trenton city council member, would have approved of what happened there yesterday.
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With three weeks remaining until the opening of the Olympic Games, China's Communist leadership is relentlessly pursuing a strategy doomed to failure. Through censorship, visa restrictions, intimidation and brute repression, China's leadership is trying to prevent any public expression by Chinese citizens or foreign visitors that conflicts with the image it wishes to project to the world -- that of a "harmonious" society.
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The State Department yesterday added seven countries, including four Arab allies, to its list of worst offenders in failing to suppress human trafficking and forced labor, which it called "a modern day form of slavery."
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It's a mantra that U.S. Rep. Chris Smith has repeated hundreds, if not thousands of times during his fight to provide money for veterans: "You can't provide health care on the cheap."
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