New Jersey Congressman Chris Smith is helping mark Autism Awareness Month around the state. A recent Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study found that 1 in every 49 children in the Garden State have some form of autism, making it the second highest rate in the country. Smith recently authored three bills, including the Combating Autism Act. The measure would provide over $693 million over three years to combat this developmental disorder. Click here to watch the video. This item w... Read more

The following article was published at the daily newspaperThe Trentonian on April 13, 2012: A $2.4 million federal regional grant has been awarded to Hamilton Fire District No. 3, headquartered at Rusling Hose Fire Co. on Rennie Street, for the purposes of sharing a single communications system among multiple towns’ fire services, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith announced Thursday. “This federal grant will help a number of towns seeking to upgrade and coordinate their emergency communications equipment,” ... Read more

By Edward Colimore -Inquirer Staff Writer The letter, sent 67 years ago, came as a great relief to his mother and other family members. They had awaited news of Technical Sgt. Harry E. Havens after receiving a message from the secretary of war informing them that he was missing in action in Germany. Weeks passed, and then came the correspondence, written in Havens' own hand."Just a few lines to say I am fine and I hope that this letter finds all of you the same," wrote the lifelong Bordentown re... Read more

At 88, Harry E. Havens, already the recipient of the Silver Star and the Distinguished Service Cross for gallantry in combat during World War II, received yet another commendation Tuesday, this time for his experience as a prisoner of war. U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-Robbinsville) presented Havens, a resident of Bordentown, with the Prisoner of War Medal in recognition of his six-week detention by Nazi troops, which began with his capture on March 15, 1945. Havens said his unit was in a village whe... Read more

A local World War II veteran who spent nearly two months as a prisoner of war was honored Tuesday afternoon for his heroism. U.S. Rep. Chris Smith presented Harry Havens, 88, with the POW medal, the Good Conduct Medal, the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with 1 silver service star and the World War II Victory Medal. “Harry Havens is one of the most decorated combat veterans of World War II in all of the state of New Jersey,” Smith said at his Hamilton office. Havens had previously... Read more

Today is World Autism Awareness Day. If New Jersey residents were not aware of the complex developmental disability, it’s likely they are now after last week’s release of startling statistics that show the Garden State with nearly twice the incidence of autism as the national average. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United States is experiencing a veritable epidemic of autism, with rates continuing to soar across the country. In New Jersey, that rate is one in 49... Read more

The following Trenton Times article written by Seth Augenstein was published on March 30, 2012: Autism rates continue to soar nationwide and New Jersey remains near the top of the list, with roughly 2 percent of children — or about 1 in 50 — diagnosed with the disorder, according to data the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released today. Experts say the nationwide spike is due at least in part to increased awareness and detection — probably the same reasons why New Jersey’s r... Read more

The U.S. government would be able to pursue sanctions ranging from a public rebuke to trade and credit suspensions against countries that harbor children abducted by a parent, under a bill approved by a House subcommittee on Tuesday. The bill from Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., is named The Sean and David Goldman Child Abduction Prevention and Return Act in honor of the Tinton Falls, N.J., man whose five-year fight to get his son back drew international attention. Goldman knows he’s one of the lucky ... Read more

The following story by the Washington Post about Chinese political prisoner Gao Zhisheng, the subject of a congressional hearing held Feb. 16 by Cong. Chris Smith (NJ-04) , chairman of the U.S. China Commission, was published on Feb. 16, 2012: By Dan Zak, Published: February 16 Somewhere between the desert basins and craggy mountains of far west China, in the lonely expanse to which criminals and subversives have been exiled for generations, a human rights lawyer named Gao Zhisheng presumably si... Read more

(CNA/EWTN News) - Representative Chris Smith thinks that the Obama administration's decision to force religious organizations to purchase health insurance plans in violation of their consciences is an attempt to force "Catholic health care to cease to be." "That's the end goal here. I think we have to be very blunt about it," he said in a Jan. 23 interview with CNA. The Republican congressman from New Jersey also responded to President Barack Obama's Jan. 22 statement on the anniversary of the S... Read more