Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) and senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sat down with Tony Perkins on Washington Watch with Tony Perkins to discuss President Donald Trump’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and to condemn the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s atrocious human rights and religious freedom record. He also responded to new polling showing strong support for restoring previous FDA-safeguards on the a... Read more

By Jeanne Wall Published October 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) marked the 25th anniversary of his Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA), landmark legislation that established the foundation of the United States’ modern fight against human trafficking. Right now as you are reading this, people are being tortured in unimaginable ways, many of them children. An estimated over 50 million people are trapped in modern slavery worldwide, 35% are childre... Read more

By Dake Kang and Byron Tau Published October 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) — Two prominent Republicans on Capitol Hill want the Supreme Court to allow a lawsuit to proceed against tech giant Cisco over allegations that the company’s technology was used to persecute members of the Falun Gong religious sect in China. In a Wednesday letter to the Trump administration’s top Supreme Court litigator, D. John Sauer, Reps. Chris Smith of New Jersey and John Moolenaar of Michigan urged the admi... Read more

By Elise Winland Published October 30, 2025 Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., marked the 25th anniversary of his landmark Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) this week by urging Congress to pass new legislation reauthorizing and expanding key federal anti-human trafficking programs. In an Oct. 28 press release, Smith, a Catholic and longtime human rights advocate, called on lawmakers to pass his recently authored Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act ... Read more

By Garance Burke, Dake Kang, and Byron Tau Published October 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM EDT U.S. lawmakers have tried four times since September last year to close what they called a glaring loophole: China is getting around export bans on the sale of powerful American AI chips by renting them through U.S. cloud services instead. But the proposals prompted a flurry of activity from more than 100 lobbyists from tech companies and their trade associations trying to weigh in, according to disclosure repor... Read more

By Bochen Han Published October 24, 2025 at 12:54 AM A group of US Republican lawmakers is urging President Donald Trump to confront Chinese President Xi Jinping at an expected summit next week about Americans they view as unjustly detained or barred from leaving China, framing Beijing’s use of exit bans and detention as “tools” to gain leverage. In a letter released on Thursday, three Republicans – Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Representatives Chris Smith of New Jersey and John Moolenaar of M... Read more

By Federal Newswire Published October 23, 2025 U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and U.S. Representative Chris Smith (R-New Jersey), who serve as Chair and Cochair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), have called on President Trump to directly address the cases of Americans detained in China during his next meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. In a letter, they urged the President to advocate for the release of Americans facing serious health issues while imprisoned, ... Read more

By Isaac Shadpour Published October 23, 2025 It was a beautiful July Sunday. I packed my fishing rod, bait, and tackle, eager to take my kids to one of New Jersey’s best fishing spots. The plan was to spend a quiet afternoon by the water, away from the traffic and noise of everyday life. But before heading out, I checked the area’s trail reports—and that’s when I saw it: multiple warnings about ticks and the risk of Lyme disease exposure. The thought of coming home with bites—and possibly a life... Read more

By N.J. News Report The Veterans Affairs clinic on Hooper Avenue in Toms River will be christened the Leonard G. “Bud” Lomell Clinic in honor the hometown hero and Army veteran who fought in World War II from the Normandy invasion through the Battle of Bulge. “The entire Board of Commissioners is exceptionally pleased to learn that the President has signed a congressional bill naming the VA clinic after Toms River resident and Army 2LT Bud Lomell,” Frank Sadeghi, deputy director of the Ocean Cou... Read more

By Nick Mordowanec Published September 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM EDT A congressman has introduced legislation honoring American prisoners Nelson Wells, Jr., and Dawn Michelle Hunt, each of whom has been locked up in Chinese prisons for over a decade, and urging their release after their long-standing claims of being wrongfully detained. Why It Matters Dawn Michelle Hunt, originally from Chicago, has been in Guangdong Women's Prison since her 2014 arrest for drug smuggling—a charge that she, her broth... Read more