Chris Smith

Karen, we are going to miss you. It has been a great partnership for many years, a dozen years.

If you have a President who allows the Chinese to abuse your own children, that is unconscionable.

I disagree with the Administration when they got rid of CPC status for Nigeria.

It shouldn't be on the backs of little children and people who are adults who are exploited as well.

I thank the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Jordan) for his leadership and for his kind words. I thank the chairman of the Judiciary Committee for sponsoring this extraordinarily important piece of legislation. Mr. Speaker, everyone remembers…

I thank Vicky Hartzler for authoring this very important and extraordinarily timely resolution. Under Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist Party is waging war against all faiths: Christians, Falun Gong, Tibetan Buddhists, Muslims, Uyghurs. He…

I thank my good friend for yielding. Madam Speaker, as the former chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs and the prime author of 14 major laws to assist veterans, including the Homeless Veterans Comprehensive Assistance Act…

I am prepared to close. Madam Speaker, I thank my good friend from Texas for his very fine statement, and I look forward to a recorded vote. I also want to say very clearly that we have a very, very broad bipartisan group of stakeholders…

Several pro-abortion policies are embedded in this bill, including section 4(b)(1), which states that ``any healthcare providers who provide contraceptives may not be singled out through any limitation or requirement.'' What does that…

I thank my good friend, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the ranking member, for her eloquent defense of the unborn child and their mothers because there are two co-victims in every abortion: mother and baby. I thank her for her leadership. It is…

The Smith-Norcross amendment to the Fiscal Year 2023 NDAA directs the Army Corps of Engineers to ensure high-quality workmanship on federal construction projects by providing each of their districts with clarifying, uniform guidance and to…

I respectfully ask the House today to adopt my amendment--the Kyle Mullen Naval Safety Enhancements--that directs the Secretary of Defense to conduct an appraisal of and provide recommended policies for improved medical care and oversight…

Simply put, the barrier, obviously, is the Chinese Communist Party.

He truly is a treasure, and I, like my other colleagues, have met him and have been so deeply impressed by his goodness and his holiness.

It is just an aggressive plan for hiring people, and have them all trained and ready to roll.

What level of confidence do you have that the biometric data that has already been provided, or will be provided, is protected?

So you can have them--everybody trained in a month?

But it wouldn't offset the cost that much is what you are saying, although you get the technology?

But our information is telling us it could be 8 weeks to 37 weeks to properly get someone trained.

Thank you so much. And going back to the issues that my office gets calls on.

But you feel confident even those who have never worked for the IRS before you can have them trained by June.

Is that fair, instead of addressing the backlog of returns of unanswered calls?

Are you aware of the hours IRS employees spend on union time now?

I wish to speak in support of Chairman Meeks' Countering Malign Russian Activities in Africa Act, of which I am an original cosponsor. While so much of the world's attention is rightfully focused on Russia's atrocities in Ukraine, Vladimir…

I, for many, many decades, have had a strong and very deep commitment to the people of the Republic of Georgia. As a matter of fact, after Russia invaded South Ossetia and Abkhazia in 2008, I traveled to Tbilisi, and spent a week there…