Chris Smith

Our hope is, and we did raise this again with the two Cabinet members that we met with, that the Philippines would use this as a model themselves, to use every best practice imaginable, including the training of airline flight attendants…

I have been pushing within the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the OCSE, we now have an action plan.

The Philippines needs to know we are all in this together on combating trafficking.

Thank you very much, Mr. Franks, for your eloquence and your extraordinary compassion, and you too Mr. Green.

I went back and looked at a bill that I had introduced... called the Ronald Reagan Alzheimer's Breakthrough Act of 2005.

So we need to do more. We hope to do more.

I plan on, I will offer a resolution to try to get each of the parliamentarians... to take back this urgent call.

Now is the time to make dementia a global priority, and the G-8 summit provides a historic opportunity to do so.

The enormous work that is being done through PEPFAR is a great credit to a concerted world effort to mitigate and hopefully eradicate that horrible disease.

The G-8 summit is not the end of the process, it is only the beginning of the process.

This has to be serious and sustained.

Trade and aid are not mutually exclusive.

This legislation focuses, among other things, on increasing exports of U.S. goods and services to Africa by 200 percent in real dollar value within 10 years.

This bill, which I am happy to say is cosponsored by our Ranking Member Karen Bass and Congressman Bobby Rush, directs the President to establish a comprehensive U.S. strategy for public and private investment, trade, and development in…

Material submitted for the record by the Honorable Christopher H. Smith, a Representative in Congress from the State of New Jersey.

I would respectfully submit $37 million needs to be looked at as a down payment.

He is now serving an 8-year sentence. He has been subjected to repeated beatings.

It is a signatory to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, so international agreements are important.

H.R. 610, a bill to provide for the establishment of the Tick-Borne Diseases Advisory Committee introduced by Representative Chris Smith to ensure interagency coordination and communications on these diseases.

I've introduced bipartisan legislation here on permitting.

The United States just keeps falling further behind in terms of permitting.

When a regime so horrifically mistreats people, in this case an American citizen...

American Pastor Abedini, his situation has gone from horrific to even worse, and that is unconscionable.

It is a murderers' jail, that jail, according to Jordan Sekulow from ACLJ.

I would like to thank our distinguished panelists for your work and for sharing with us your expertise and insights.