Chris Smith

China continues to be one of the worst abusers of human rights in the world.

The Chinese Communist Party has undertaken the most comprehensive attempt to manipulate and control or destroy religious communities since Chairman Mao Zedong made the eradication of religion a goal of his disastrous cultural revolution…

I think about Nicaragua in our own hemisphere, a terrible actor in the Ortega, a little country with people who are suffering.

We meet at a time when there is an actual genocide taking place.

I want to go. Now, I would hope maybe we could go together.

Today I am more concerned than ever about the further deterioration of religious freedom.

I mean, this man is an incredibly brave man of God, and he is being persecuted horribly.

I think the distinguished members of this panel and many other elected officials know that's not the truth.

In May of this year, I reintroduced the Vietnam Human Rights Act, which parenthetically passed the House four times in the past, only to die in the Senate.

We are uniquely situated to stand up for religion freedom around the world for a number of reasons.

No more slaps on the wrist for Xi Jinping. He needs to be held to account, and I think severe economic sanctions is the only tangible way to do it.

Are we doing enough? We have passed the Uyghur Forced Labor Act, which needs some amending.

Billions of people around the world, half of the world's population, are not able to practice their faith freely.

I would love for the DR Congo to own it all and to spread the wealth that is gleaned from that to their own people.

Thank you very much, Mr. Secretary. Welcome. It is great to see you again. Let me just say at the outset how grateful I was when you were Secretary of State.

I introduced a bill, H.R. 4443, that would look to enforce the Tariff Act Section 307 and require an all-out effort to try to protect those children and those adults from this egregious human rights practice by the Chinese Communist Party.

We have been absolutely seamless in our concern about what is happening in Cameroon.

It is an excellent resolution.

Silence is not an option.

the PA has much to answer for on a whole lot of issues. But, abusing their own children is about as appalling as it gets.

Today's hearing focuses on rampant antisemitism, anti-Israel bias, in the United Nations, the Palestinian Authority, and the NGO community.

What I think could be done... is to designate the people in the Palestinian Authority who are involved in the pay of the salaries to terrorists.

I don't say that about the Palestinians en masse. I say that about the Palestinian Authority.

I will never forget, I made one trip, always bringing up antisemitism, but I met with a group of Palestinian students.

The rising tide of antisemitism worldwide is cause for serious alarm.