Chris Smith

I co-signed a 301 petition that was written by Mark Barenberg, Professor of Law at Columbia, on behalf of the AFL-CIO.

I would appreciate a very formal response from the administration on what we are going to do to redress these severe trade imbalances.

I plan on a separate hearing on that, either in my subcommittee or here in the Commission, shortly because the time has come to end that practice.

Lawyers and activists who stand up for individual rights are detained, often under deplorable conditions, and tortured.

the promises that U.S. manufactured products will gain real access to the Chinese market have never been kept.

That's not competing, that's cheating. We must act now while we still have a chance.

For almost 20 years the United States has been aggressively pressing China to improve its intellectual property protection regime.

in my opinion the answer is an unmistakable no.

It seems to me that the barest minimal action should be to undertake an investigation like this.

A counterfeit auto part could be the wheel or the brakes on your car.

I applaud you for initiating that in the first place.

Today, I introduced a bill, along with Congressman Frank Wolf and some other Members of the House...

And so I do think that we need to start looking at stronger restrictions, and hopefully, it would be great if all these companies would just say, we are going to do the right thing...

I remember during the early years of my tenure in office in the 1980s, I got elected in 1980 and took office in 1981, the same argument was being employed to say, 'Let's not have sanctions on South Africa'...

We have got to go and give the tools and empower our own Government to have the ability to restrict these dual-use capable technologies.

There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

I want to point out another remarkable project that is currently run by Barbara Bush, President George W. Bush's daughter.

If the election results stand, the consequences will prove detrimental to democracy in Nicaragua.

I think it is one of the areas that hasn't been focused on enough.

the President said decisions about awards of Federal assistance, financial assistance, must be free from political interference

I authored the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, the landmark law that created America's comprehensive policy to combat modern-day slavery.

I just want the record to show that since the late nineties I have chaired well over two dozen hearings on trafficking issues.

Isn't it true that 'not qualified' for one of them was clearly there?

Because we think that numbers were in some ways not even as positive of the difference in these organizations.

First of all, let me say, Mr. Sheldon, you know, the art of misdirection is alive and well in Washington.