Chris Smith

Mr. Stewart, thank you very much for your statement and your leadership as well. I now yield to Mr. Yoho, the gentleman from Florida.

I want to thank my friend for his, again, very fine statement and for his leadership as well. I yield to Chris Stewart from Utah.

I want to thank Ms. Wagner for her very eloquent statement and for her long service on behalf of the unborn and equally for their mothers as well. I yield to Tim Walberg.

I thank my very good friend for yielding and thank her for her strong leadership for human rights and for the unborn. Mr. Speaker, pain--we all dread it, we avoid it, we even fear it, and we all go to extraordinary lengths to mitigate its…

Chairman Frank Wolf of Virginia will cast his last vote this week, capping off a remarkable 34-year career of altruistic deeds, selfless service, bold humanitarian initiatives, and durable achievement. Both of us got elected in 1980, the…

I'd like to thank my colleagues Ms. Ros-Lehtinen and Mr. Deutch who worked on the House version of this much-needed and timely bill. This substantive bill expands our relationship with our closest ally by formally declaring Israel a…

A good name is more desirable than great riches.

I think your idea is excellent, Dr. Link, so we will pursue that.

I got a bill passed, the Admiral James W. Nance and Meg Donovan Foreign Relations Authorization Act.

Xi Jinping in the last 2 years is truly projecting power.

I raise this because there has been a tone-deafness on so many of these issues, and I wondering if we are running into the same thing here.

What is the reason that New York University, for example, terminated the fellowship of a world-class human rights advocate and hero, Chen Guangcheng?

At that 2006 hearing that I had with Google, Microsoft, Cisco, and Yahoo, we actually put up on a large board the Google search engine for China.

It is a very, very difficult job that they have, and they do need to find sources, but not all sources are licit or ethical.

It seems it has gotten exponentially worse in the last 10 years, with the Confucius Institutes and now with more and more of our universities setting up satellite campuses in China.

I have been in Congress 34 years, and I remember in my second term a terrible human rights abuse became known through the work of a guy named Steven Mosher, and that is the one-child, forced-abortion policy.

I want to note very clearly that we have repeatedly invited NYU's president and key faculty to testify before this subcommittee.

I have chaired now to date almost 50 Congressional hearings on Chinese human rights abuses. It is not getting better. It is getting demonstrably worse, especially under Xi Jinping.

As we all know now, China has failed to democratize, despite increases in the standard of living by many, but certainly not all of its citizens.

Despite the ongoing jailing and executions of dissidents, these businessmen in China told me that if we just trade a little more, the dictatorship will somehow matriculate into a democracy.

Is American education for sale? And, if so, are U.S. colleges and universities undermining the principle of academic freedom?

I want to thank my prime cosponsor, Betty McCollum, and her staff... with whom we do everything in a very bipartisan way.

This is important legislation. It is urgent legislation to help provide a durable solution to global hunger.

Russia's continuing political, military, and economic aggression against Ukraine, as well as Georgia and Moldova, needs to be called out.

To authorize the provision of assistance on an emergency basis for countries affected by or at risk of being affected by the outbreak of the Ebola virus disease.