Chris Smith

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

These two resolutions, 3236 and 3246, should--must be canceled because they tell the Palestinians that they have an international right to use all means.

This is an abhorrent practice.

we will never stop working to bring abducted children--your children--home.

justice delayed--this isn't even delayed. This is denied.

I've never seen a more broken woman. She has a deep faith and she just prays for her children and even for her husband, despite the fact that he kidnaped her children.

I find that appalling.

Thank you for that and for focusing on all these families that are here with their precious children and pictures that they're holding for us to see.

It is a huge mistake. It is a diplomatic mistake.

With the recent largest-ever homicide spike in the history of our Nation, our first responders and law enforcement officers are facing unprecedented threats on the job at severe staff shortages as they are simultaneously met with radical…

Assad or burn the country.

This mass murderer who has disrupted the entire Middle East region... is paying no price.

I was grateful to the United Kingdom and the United States for imposing Caesar sanctions.

He is a drug kingpin.

Secretary Blinken testified in this committee on the record that he had asked the Arab League nations not to recognize Assad.

I say this as an invitation to anyone who has any information about anything relative to trafficking to let the TIP office know.

I am particularly grateful to you for your attention to forced labor which is an egregious violation of human rights.

I hope they would not, but the TIP report has to be sacrosanct.

there is every reason to believe that Xi Jinping is gaming the system despite good efforts on part of our customs people.

I just would hope that, you know, the people up that chain of command will realize that, you know, Congress gets fed up with that kind of manipulation.

I do agree with you, Congressman Smith, absolutely about the grading issues.

I am happy to say that all of this has been bipartisan.

Critics argue that the State Department should be capturing more through passport applications.

So I cannot tell you how concerned I am about how many of those people, particularly the women and children, are enslaved today.

The bill passed three times in the House. Could not get any movement in the Senate. We finally did.