Chris Smith

Words are inadequate to convey my profound respect, admiration, and gratitude for Trenton Diocese Bishop Emeritus John Mortimer Smith, who celebrated his golden jubilee, an amazing 50 years as a Catholic priest, on May 22 at a mass…

I rise with sadness to inform the House of the passing late yesterday afternoon of one of the longest living former Members of the House, Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen. Congressman Frelinghuysen served in this House with effectiveness and…

the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act should be restated and strengthened to ensure that its protections meet their needs in the 21st century.

I thank my good friend Mr. Nugent for yielding and thank him for his leadership. Madam Speaker, America has changed and today is more pro-life than ever. By ever-increasing majorities, especially among our young people, the megatrend is to…

I thank my good friend, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Mr. Smith, for his great leadership. I want to thank Mr. Lipinski, prime cosponsor of H.R. 3. I want to thank the other distinguished chairmen, Dave Camp; and Fred Upton; our…

Thank you very much for yielding. Mr. Speaker, in its slick TV ads and PR blitz, the multi-billion- dollar-a-year abortion giant Planned Parenthood appears to be hiding something. Could it be that they're hiding the dismaying fact that…

The gentleman from Texas makes an excellent point. When you provide foreign aid, when you provide economic lifelines to dictatorships, it enables them to continue their repression. Years ago, we took a very principled stance against South…

You know, the date we lost China, in my opinion, was May 26, 1994. On that date, President Bill Clinton completely severed and de-linked human rights with Most Favored Nation status, after getting accolades when he linked it a year before…

Well, I think you just made an articulate defense of why a consistent, transparent human rights, pro-freedom, pro-democracy foreign policy is absolutely essential if we want a world that is free of tyranny. Pope John Paul II once said: If…

I thank my very good friend and colleague for yielding. I do raise my voice today, and I join my friend from Texas and others in a bit of a celebration--although it needs to be a cautious celebration because the tyranny on the island of…

The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (H.R. 3) was introduced to address taxpayer funding of abortion.

I would respectfully submit that conveying false information, misleading and inflated numbers, may have shock value but in accuracy in assessing efforts to mitigate maternal mortality and engaging in hyperbole is wrong.

We must make difficult decisions in light of the unfortunate fiscal priorities facing us.

We can insist that governments in developing countries that receive our assistance be as committed to helping their own people as we are.

I would, again, respectfully submit to this administration that a reappraisal... about the child in the womb and the inherent bigotry and prejudice against that child in the womb that is inherent in the abortion culture...

Our hearing this morning is about the budget requests for USAID and MCC and the need to ensure maximum return on our investments.

I would hope the administration would take a second look at its embrace of abortion globally because it really does undermine Millennium Goal 4 which calls for mitigating child mortality.

I was also deeply disturbed by the assassination of Pakistan's Federal Minister of Minorities, as we all were, and joined by several people on this subcommittee and throughout the House, including Frank Wolf and so many other Members, when…

I would hope that our distinguished witnesses would address a number of news reports and as well as the Agency for Defense Development briefing for members of Parliament in Seoul.

I would echo that call to the administration.

I think every member of our panel, we strongly want that special envoy, that special representative yesterday.

Could I ask during the last elections how much we contributed?

Let me also thank Mr. McDermott for his role as one of the original authors of the Congo Conflict Minerals provision that recently became law.

The U.N. has such great potential. And so often it squanders it, both by what it allows its treaty bodies to do and by what the Human Rights Council, in particular, has done.

Mr. Chairman, it's time Americans, especially policymakers, health officials, the media, and law enforcement, took a second and critical look at Planned Parenthood. Not only does Planned Parenthood vigorously lobby and litigate against…