Chris Smith

One of my top concerns is that we seem to be relearning the same lessons again and again and again.

We seem to be relearning the same lessons again and again and again.

We all deeply mourn the tragic loss of four extraordinarily brave Americans, including our distinguished Ambassador, Christopher Stevens.

Three-quarters of New Jersey businesses were hurt by Sandy. When asked, they put the small business loss at $8.3 billion. No wonder 100,000 storm-related unemployment claims have been filed. The Governor's office points out that public…

I thank my good friend for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the rule. When emergencies strike, large or small, Americans can always be counted on to assist and to support the victims. At our core, we are a Nation of Good…

I thank my good friend for yielding. Madam Chair, I rise in strong support of the amendment offered by my good friend and colleague, Mr. Runyan, to ensure that the funding in this bill is targeted to those fishery disasters resulting from…

I thank my good friend for yielding, and I strongly support Mr. Frelinghuysen's amendment. Madam Chair, gaps in homeowners insurance coverage and a growing realization that there will be major tax receipt losses from towns that have had…

The two-tiered amendment disaster relief bill that we had hoped to bring to the floor to get us to the $60 billion that is desperately needed to assist families, businesses, and municipalities devastated by Superstorm Sandy. Our…

I do join my colleagues in asking that the Speaker reconsider. I want to thank Majority Leader Eric Cantor who has worked tirelessly through these many days right up to the last couple of minutes. Today, families lack housing, businesses…

Until the Chinese law on organ transplants is effectively implemented, foreign governments should not issue visas to doctors from China seeking to travel abroad.

All countries should strengthen their laws against the crime of trafficking in organs.

I urge Congress to adopt legislative changes to limit health care insurance coverage for those who receive organs from unknown sources.

I ask Congress to adopt legislative changes, to prohibit patients going abroad to receive illegal organ transplants, or at the very least, congress could require the patients to register their operations with the Department of Public…

I urge the United States government and anyone with any knowledge of organ harvesting to publicly release all evidence they have with regard to China's use of prisoners as a source of organ donation.

It seems a no-brainer that holding abusers to account, they should be before a court of law.

Bring it on. I would say to the Chinese Government, we need to be very serious about abuse.

When you're talking about abusers, any collateral damage that might be done if it has any mitigating effect on the abuse is well worth it, in my opinion, which is why I think we need to promulgate lists.

The State Department celebrated the one millionth visa granted to an American citizen just a few months ago, but this Chairman--me--I have been denied a visa, as have members of our staff, to travel to China because we've raised the case…

The U.S. Government should speak out clearly to the CCP regime that no such thing could happen in this world.

If we do not respect human rights, if we do not protect human rights, we cannot be called a human being.

It seems to me that a very focused sanction of this kind that says to individuals who engage in barbaric practices, well, at the very least you're not allowed to come to the United States.

I introduced a bill called Jacob's Law that would say that anyone who is engaged in human rights abuse against an American will be denied a visa to the United States.

In 2004 I authored the Belarus Democracy Act, which also has a visa ban in it.

Both the previous administration and the current administration has so inadequately enforced it, that only some 27 people have been denied entry into the United States.

I authored a law that empowered the U.S. Government to deny visas to anyone who is involved with forced abortion or forced sterilization.