Chris Smith

Today we appeal to Beijing, ease up, respect fundamental human rights and the sanctity of human life, and honor your commitments and the rule of law.

It is our job to get to a defendable, transparent a decision as expeditiously as possible.

I thank my good friend for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of the Violence Against Women Act offered by Congresswoman McMorris Rodgers. It authorizes $2.2 billion for VAWA to help victimized women & children seeking…

As long as I am in this post no one in Hungary can be harmed because of their faith, convictions or origin.

I hope you will use the appropriations authority to support civil society groups who are working on the front lines.

The Holocaust Museum had an excellent exhibit several years ago on the relationship between anti-Semitic propaganda and the road toward the Holocaust.

Why is it that so many governments, and that would include our own, mistakenly look at the Muslim Brotherhood as somehow being moderate when it has such a profoundly anti-Semitic foundation to it?

Ignorance and hate are a very lethal combination and education is hugely important.

If we in America aren't vigilant about explaining and educating and ourselves understanding what it is that we have if, in fact, it is worth having and worth fighting for--if we don't understand it and require our children to understand…

Congress should be inquiring about that.

We view this as a national security issue, we think the administration should too.

I think the United States can play the most constructive role perhaps than any other country in the world in navigating what to do about the relationship between hate speech and violence.

My colleague, Elisa Massimino, down at the end of the table, spoke about the need for the United States to develop a national security policy based around the priority and importance of religious freedom.

I think that we have historically viewed the Muslim Brotherhood as a very dangerous organization with values and principles and platforms utterly inimical to our American values and democracy.

It is a very dangerous and short-sighted game to ignore the long term strength that comes to a society when we base our policies on standing firmly and strongly for our most profound values.

Yet now, nearly 70 years after the Holocaust, the fact remains that across Europe, from East to West, anti-Semitism lives and is gaining momentum.

Anti-Semitism remains a phenomenon that as I say knows no national boundaries.

We face it. We confront it.

This is not the conduct of a civilized people. These are not the words of a civilized man. This is a stain upon the honor of Egypt.

I will be committed to eliminating anti-Semitism around the world. The United States stood tall once before, and I look forward to being part of standing tall once again.

The committee will come to order, and good morning to everyone. Thank you for being here bright and early.

Just to underscore for my colleagues the broad support that this has, the American Jewish Committee has also supported it, the Family Research Council. As I said earlier, the Becket Fund and so many others have written very extensive…

I thank my good friend for yielding, and I thank the gentlelady from Texas for her very strong and passionate remarks. I especially again want to thank Congresswoman Meng for her excellent statement and her support and cosponsorship of…

Again, this legislation permits houses of worship to receive the same type of generally available assistance in picking up the pieces after stunning devastation that many other similarly situated nonprofits receive. Thus, the bill not only…

I thank my good friend, the chair, for yielding. I thank him for his support and for Mr. Rahall. And I want to thank Gracie Meng for her cosponsorship and leadership on this important bill, and all the cosponsors, and to Eric Cantor and…