Chris Smith

No Amount of 'Easing' Will Fix China's Brutal Population Control Policy.

But I am just alarmed at the rise--and you guys know I am right--about the rise of China in there.

President Obama is requesting $6.18 billion in emergency funding to enhance our efforts to urgently address this crisis right now and for the coming year.

And special recognition, of course for Representatives Smith and Bass for your extraordinary and consistent leadership in global health for so many years.

I want to thank my friends on the other side of the aisle for working so closely on its creation.

The bill also encourages U.S. collaboration with other donors to mitigate the risk of economic collapse and civil unrest in the three affected countries.

I want to announce today the introduction of a bill. We have been working very closely with Chairman Royce on this as well as the ranking member, Karen Bass, called the Ebola Emergency Response Act.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for putting together this very important and timely hearing on the Ebola crisis.

Call for the release of Chinese citizens confined, detained, or imprisoned for peacefully pursuing their religious beliefs

The right to freedom of religion includes: the right of Buddhists to carry out activities in temples independent of state controls over religion

I will continue to advocate for human rights and democracy in China.

Delay is denial. One day of a delay is denial.

It is a dereliction of duty on the part of the President that he has not made this phone call.

This would be an accountability initiative. It needs to be stood up immediately.

I argued then, and I would argue now, that the ICC, which has already had a thumbs down by the Russians, is not up to the task.

Are the other countries giving commensurate with what we are giving based on their size and population?

I think you need one person in the administration so that there is a central point.

Thank God for MSF. Thank God for Samaritan's Purse.

The numbers range. Yesterday the President was talking about hundreds of thousands. I read a German doctor who said something on the order of 5 million.

I spoke yesterday to Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the lead witness at our August 7 emergency hearing during recess on Ebola, and he said that this is the worst health crisis he had…

I don't think we would want our businesses engaging in corruption to help hasten its end.

I am a firm proponent of enforcement of the FCPA.

I hope especially those who are beleaguered and being destroyed, literally, exterminated, get a ray of hope from tonight's speech by the President.

The response is not violence.

What we demand is freedom to make our claims.