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Chris Smith

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Chris Smith is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing New Jersey's 4th congressional district since 1981. Throughout his tenure, he has focused on a range of issues including human rights, foreign affairs, and health care. Smith has been involved in various legislative efforts aimed at improving health services and advocating for the rights of individuals both domestically and internationally. His long-standing service in Congress has made him a prominent figure in New Jersey politics.

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Mar 21, 2023

Why is America allowing Nicaragua to be the third largest exporter of meat to America, meat that it is tainted with blood?

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Mar 21, 2023

I want to thank you so very much for your testimony, for your leadership, brave and heroic as it is.

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Mar 7, 2023

lessons learned without accountability--we have to have accountability.

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Mar 7, 2023

The only thing professional about the Taliban is them professionally being able to brutalize and torture people.

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Mar 7, 2023

I never imagined . . . the kind of gross abandonment, followed by career-preserving silence of senior leaders, both military and civilian.

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Mar 7, 2023

To the people of Taiwan, America will not have your back.

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Mar 6, 2023

I want to thank the representative.

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Feb 27, 2023

This is smart targeted legislation which calls upon U.S. policymakers to oppose an international organization such as the United Nations such bogus labeling.

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Feb 27, 2023

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime... estimated that human trafficking for forced organ removal is a criminal enterprise worth between $840 million and $1.7 billion.

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Feb 27, 2023

I support all of the bills included, embedded in the en bloc.

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Feb 27, 2023

The cruelty of murdering between 60,000 to 100,000 young victims every year... is unimaginable.

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Feb 27, 2023

I was the House sponsor of it, and, when it passed, it took years to get passed.

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Feb 27, 2023

I want to offer my congratulations to him--has pinpointed another overlooked area of strategic importance, undersea cables.

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Feb 9, 2023

I thank my good friend for offering this very important and very timely resolution. It asks many of the tough questions that have to be asked, and we need answers. Mr. Speaker, journalist Paul Bedard wrote an incisive article on February 3…

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Jan 11, 2023

Two women spoke at a pregnancy care center dinner I attended in New Jersey. Both women were effusive in their thanks that the director had approached them in absolute kindness and empathy as they were literally walking from the parking lot…

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Jan 11, 2023

I thank my good friend for yielding, and I thank Ann Wagner for authoring this important legislation. Madam Speaker, in a Florida abortion clinic, Sycloria Williams delivered a live baby girl at 23 weeks. The clinic owner took the baby…

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Jan 10, 2023

For over three decades post- Tiananmen Square massacre, Congress was deeply divided; not between Republican and Democrat, but among the majority here and in the Senate who favored unfettered engagement and trade without serious human…

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Dec 13, 2022

I thank my good friend for yielding and for his leadership, and I thank my friend on the other side of the aisle for his support. Madam Speaker, in late March 2019, University of South Carolina senior Samantha Josephson--``Sami'' to…

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Dec 5, 2022

I support aim to help our friends in Ukraine.

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Dec 5, 2022

One cannot win the war with blankets.

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Dec 5, 2022

I'm the one who introduced the resolution, and I actually chaired a hearing, saying we could charge Putin with war crimes right now.

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Dec 5, 2022

I do support, and I support it strongly, and that is Ukrainian aid, both humanitarian as well as military.

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Nov 29, 2022

I thank my good friend for yielding me time. I am especially grateful that she has introduced the Uyghur Policy Act, which is particularly timely given the mass spontaneous protests we see arising in China. It is particularly pertinent…

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Nov 16, 2022

I mean, after that hearing--I knew what was going on in those mines, I raised it a number of times--but until I heard from two DR Congolese leaders, including a Jesuit priest, it just--how could this President be complicit in this? And I…

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Nov 16, 2022

I hope that we can come back to redesignating--designating Buhari and his government as a CPC country.

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