Chris Smith

Boko Haram has been so brutal, that the recruitment and feeder issues have diminished somewhat in their ability to attract people to their entity.

I hope we can learn critical lessons from the vast experience and use them to move forward to increase support for the most effective measures that bring an end to the scourge of Boko Haram in northern Nigeria.

Since November 2013, the U.S. Government has declared Boko Haram and its affiliate, Ansaru, to be Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

A free and democratic China will be a force for good not just for the Chinese people, but for the rest of the globe.

Censorship remains a huge problem.

That is the America we had hoped for.

We have called on the Obama administration to enforce the law as it exists today, which bars visas to those who are complicit in the horrific one-child-per-couple forced abortion policy.

Material submitted for the record by the Honorable Christopher H. Smith, a Representative in Congress from the State of New Jersey, and chairman, Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations

I disagree with President Obama that they have made progress in the last 30 years. They have made significant, significant regression.

I have always believed that it takes two essential elements for a dictatorship to prosper, sadly, and those are to control the flow of information, propaganda, and secret police.

The persecutions of the Christians, particularly the underground Christian church, the Uyghurs Muslims, the Falun Gong, and the Buddhists in Tibet, has gotten exponentially worse in the last few years.

I wrote a law in 2000 that says we will withhold visas to those who were involved or complicit in any way with the forced abortion policy of the People's Republic of China.

He said don't vote on that. I will issue an Executive order.

If somebody on one party's side or the other enables, wittingly or unwittingly, these horrific abuses, they need to be called to task for it.

I have always, and I know Mr. Wolf and all of us, don't see this as a partisan issue.

I hope our Nation will not make the same mistakes we made 25 years ago, and that this time we will stand with you.

Those days of hiding under the sand have to change, and this is a new appeal to the President.

These protesters were gathered peacefully, seeking a more democratic China, a China that allowed for basic human rights.

The United States must demonstrate clearly and robustly that democratic reforms and human rights are critical to their national interest.

It remains the torture capital of the world.

As we mark the 25th year since the Tiananmen massacre, I am very thankful that the United States continues to remember and honor the lives that were lost and continues to promote the struggle for democracy and freedom in our world.

I protested it, as did many others. President Clinton gave Chi Haotian a 19-gun salute at the White House. He should have sent him to The Hague for crimes against humanity but gave him all of these honors.

Chairman, with your leadership, maybe we can bolster that commitment around the world so that we will take on these tin pot dictators and these monstrous regimes like in China today.

Despite the country's stunning economic growth over the past two decades, Beijing's leaders still remain terrified of their own people.

I was the prime sponsor of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, our landmark law here in the United States to combat sex and labor trafficking.