By Steve Strunsky | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com A law firm hired by the Kansas junior college where a former Neptune High School football player died of heat stroke on his first day of practice last year found “a striking lack of leadership” by the college officials and coaches leading up to 19-year-old Braeden Bradforth’s death 1,500 miles from home. The Los Angeles-based firm, Lewis Brisbois LLP, which delivered its withering critique in a report made public Thursday by Bradforth’s mother, al... Read more

The following opinion piece was published by the Wall Street Journal on Nov. 11, 2019. By Chris Smith Nov. 11, 2019 6:43 pm ET The governments of Kenya and Denmark and the United Nations Population Fund are attempting to hijack the U.N.’s global population and development work to support an extreme pro-abortion agenda. On Tuesday UNFPA opens the three-day Nairobi Summit, 25 years after the International Conference on Population Development in Cairo. As a member of Congress I attended the ICPD, w... Read more

By Vin Ebenau WOBM Morning Anchor - Jersey Shore Congressman Chris Smith (R - Mercer, Monmouth and Ocean) has introduced a new plan to combat Lyme Disease which affects so many people across the state and country. The National Institutes of Health's (NIH) new national research multi-part plan includes five pillars: expands knowledge of tickborne diseases, develops rapid diagnostic testing, identifies treatment success and human biomarkers of persistent symptoms, develops new treatments and eval... Read more

By Cassidy Morrison | November 05, 2019 After working nearly 30 years to pass major legislation to research treatments for Lyme disease, the tick-borne infection that causes more than 300,000 illnesses each year, Republican Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey is newly optimistic about a breakthrough. The Senate Health Committee voted Thursday on a bipartisan basis to advance the upper chamber's version of Smith's bill after Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine renamed it to honor the late Sen. Kay ... Read more

By Jerry Carino of the Asbury Park Press WALL - Brian Dashore was a second-grader attending Little League practice one day when, seemingly out of nowhere, he collapsed. Assuming fatigue, the Marlboro resident went home and slept. “The next day I woke up with severe pain in my hips and legs,” he said. “I was like that for two years.” At first doctors suspected juvenile arthritis. Then cancer. Finally, after 10 false negatives, he tested positive for Lyme disease. By then, much of the damage was d... Read more

By David Wildstein, NJ Globe - Uber and Lyft were no-shows at a congressional hearing today on legislation sponsored by Rep. Christopher Smith (R-Hamilton) to protect ride-share users from sexual assault and other crimes Smith’s bill comes seven months after Sami Josephson, a Robbinsville resident, was murdered by a predator pretending to be an Uber driver. The parents of the woman, Seymour and Marci Josephson, worked with Smith to create “Sami’s Law,” which would push for all states to have fro... Read more

Fox 5 New York, also known as WNYW TV, aired its an installment in its “Lyme and Reason” series in October. “Lyme Disease and the Power of Innovation,” looks at hopeful developments in the realm of Lyme disease. There are interviews with patients, advocates, authors, policy makers and politicians. Congressman Chris Smith was interviewed about his work on investigating the possible origins of Lyme disease as a military weapon research program. Click below to watch. Smith's interview is at approxi... Read more

By Dan Alexander, 101.5 Staff - Sami’s Law — a bill named after a Robbinsville student police say was killed by a man she mistook for her Uber driver — could nationalize protections that ride-share users in New Jersey already have under state law. Columbia, South Carolina police said Samantha Josephson got into a black Chevrolet Impala on March 29 after leaving the Bird Dog bar in the city's Five Points area. The body of the USC senior was found several hours later off a country road 65 miles a... Read more

By TAPINTO BELMAR/LAKE COMO STAFF AND OFFICE OF U.S. REP. CHRIS SMITH, FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT October 6, 2019 at 9:15 PM Nearly $2 billion in research funding to help children and adults with autism — legislation authored by Rep. Chris Smith (R-4th District) — has been signed into law by President Donald Trump. The Autism Cares Act of 2019 will fund critical biomedical autism research, as well as the development of best practices to enhance the lives of persons with autism, said Smith, wh... Read more

By Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman, Trentonian Staff Writer - President Donald Trump advanced bipartisan legislation this week even as the tweeter-in-chief accused the Biden family of being corrupt and hammered congressional Democrats for launching an impeachment inquiry following his controversial phone call with Ukraine’s leader. “Today, I was proud to sign the Autism CARES Bill!” Trump said Monday in a tweet. “We support research for Americans with Autism and their families. You are not forgotten, we a... Read more