By TAPINTO HAMILTON/ROBBINSVILLE STAFF Credits: Elizabeth A Meyers WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-4) applauded this week’s announcement that the federal government is sending $216 million to New Jersey to reimburse the state for vaccination efforts against COVID-19 (coronavirus.) This award would provide roughly half of the amount FEMA is planning to reimburse to the State of New Jersey for running the mega sites through April 30. “I greatly welcome this important federal reimburs... Read more

By JEANNE WALL - January 20, 2021 Monmouth County's Board of County Commissioners, along with the Colts Neck Township Committee, hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony on January 14, to celebrate the completion of the State Route 34 (SR 34) and County Route 537 (CR 537) intersection improvement and bridge replacement project. Local, County, and Federal Government Officials gather in Colts Neck to celebrate the completion of a significant road improvement at the intersection of State Route 34 and Coun... Read more

Monmouth County Commissioner Lillian G. Burry and Congressman Chris Smith (R-4) at the newly renovated intersection of Rt. 34 and Rt. 537. Congressman Chris Smith (R-4) joined Monmouth County and Colts Neck officials at the intersection of Route 34 and Route 537 in Colts Neck to mark the end of a nearly two-decade headache to motorists. The county project tapped $23 million in mostly federal funding to fix the intersection of State Highway Route 34 and County Road 537 — plagued with long traffi... Read more

A number of Monmouth County students recently received accolades for developing smart phone applications for the Congressional App Challenge. Congress created the event in 2014 to encourage students to develop computer coding and software application skills and foster STEM skills among young students. The contest is sponsored nationally by the Internet Education Foundation, and 303 members of Congress made the Challenge available in their districts this year, representing over two-thirds of Amer... Read more

U.S. Congressman Chris Smith (RNJ) has announced the winners of this year's New Jersey Fourth Congressional District Congressional App Challenge, part of a nationwide competition for middle school and high school students to showcase their software appdeveloping skills and teamwork. The winning app (application), CollabraCart, was designed by Communications High School students Erin Hardiman of Spring Lake, Melody Lin of Freehold and Jacob Rosegarten of Morganville, according to a press release ... Read more

CHINA - Cathy He - Jan. 14, 2021 The Chinese regime has this past year broadened its repression of groups domestically while ramping up human rights violations around the world, a bipartisan U.S. congressional commission warned in its annual report. The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) said in the report released on Jan. 14 that the “Chinese Communist Party has taken unprecedented steps to extend their repressive policies through censorship, intimidation, and the detention of p... Read more

Associated Press - Jan 13, 2021 Security was exceptionally tight at the Capitol on Wednesday, with shocking images of massed National Guard troops, secure perimeters around the complex and metal-detector screenings required for lawmakers entering the House chamber. More than 20,000 National Guard members could be in the nation's capital to help secure President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, Washington, D.C., Police Chief Robert Contee said Wednesday. There are already significantly more U.S. ... Read more

By David Wildstein, January 03 2021 9:12 am Rep. Christopher Smith (R-Hamilton) has authored 47 different laws during his 40 years as the congressman from New Jersey’s 4th district, with one more passed in the final hours of the 116th Congress awaiting the signature of President Donald Trump. The New Jersey Republican begins his record-setting 21st term in the U.S. House of Representatives today, continuing a legislative career that began on January 3, 1981 when he took office as a 27-year-old ... Read more

George Woolston Burlington County Times USA TODAY NETWORK - The $732 billion bill that sets spending and policy for the U.S. military has passed the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday with bipartisan support. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) received bipartisan support by passing 335-78, with a total of 140 Republicans and 195 Democrats backing the bill, the Associated Press reported. South Jersey lawmakers consider several provisions in the bill big wins for Joint Base McGuire-... Read more

By U.S. Rep. Chris Smith - Dec. 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), rightfully heralded as a human rights landmark. To understand how the UDHR came about and what made it necessary, however, we need to first recall what preceded it. The UDHR was born of the horrors of the Holocaust and World War II, as well as the imperfect attempt to achieve some sort of justice at the Nuremberg and Tokyo War Crimes trials. Recall, the defendan... Read more