Chris Smith actually said...

"This legislation mirrors legislation that I wrote back in 2000 called the Trafficking Victims Protection Act which was designed to combat the hideous practice of human trafficking."

"At a time when the government is shut down, we are alive and well and running in the typically bipartisan way that you run this committee."

"We need to recognize more fully, I believe, the threat posed by these cowards, these terrorists, who are slaughtering people."

"No matter what we do, anybody in the world, there will never be a hardening of supermarkets, restaurants, and the like, which underscores the need to destroy these hideous terrorist organizations."