Chris Smith

Mr. Speaker, let me just make it very clear what this vote is about. It is about U.S. taxpayer subsidies for one of the worst dictatorships in the world. Let us be clear on another thing. There is no freedom of immigration from Vietnam. If…

25 years after Roe v. Wade, I believe it is time for a serious reality check and a compassion check as well. Supreme Court imposed abortion-on-demand in America has claimed the lives of more than 36 million boys and girls and, although…

This will have to be determined. There is a body of evidence suggesting that IUDs, for example, may have the impact, and many women are unaware of this, may have the impact of preventing implantation. What my amendment says, that is still…

Not at all. Right now the HMOs, and all of the health care providers under the Federal Employees Health Benefits program, if they choose, can provide any of those methods that you mentioned, from IUDs to Depo-Provera. What your amendment…

Let me make it very clear there has to be a determination made, and maybe it is about time, with all of the resources at our disposal, we really came to a firm conclusion as to how some of these chemicals and how the IUD actually works…

Part of the problem we have with the gentlewoman's first amendment, as well as the amendment that was offered and just passed, is a definitional one. How do you define contraception? How do define pregnancy? For some, it is implantation…

Contraception by definition should mean before a new life has come into being. There are many who want to blue that line and say that chemicals affect the implementation or even after that.

I think it is becoming abundantly clear to a growing number of Americans that abortion is violence against children. Abortion methods rip and tear innocent, unborn babies to pieces. Abortion methods dismember children with razor blades…

Mr. Chairman, let me make it very clear, and I think we all more and more of us realize this, abortion is violence against children. Abortion is violence against children. It is not some benign act that benefits or nurtures. It kills…

Lyme disease is one of the Nation's fastest growing infectious diseases. This is an issue of great concern to military personnel and their families who serve and train in areas endemic for Lyme disease. In New Jersey both Fort Dicks and…

I thank the gentleman for affording me this opportunity to clarify the funding situation for the API lab at Lakehurst. There have been far too many delays with this project already, and H.R. 4059 will finally set the wheels in motion to…

I am very eager to see design funding for the P-208 aircraft platform interface, the API laboratory consolidation project, move forward this year at Lakehurst Naval Air Engineering Station. I would ask the gentleman, is it accurate to say…

I urge a yes vote on this important human rights resolution. Nine years ago today, the ground of Tiananmen Square was hallowed by the blood of thousands of peaceful democracy advocates. Those Chinese patriots were slaughtered by a…

Mr. Chairman, the national debate on partial birth abortion has proven beyond any reasonable doubt that abortion is violence against children. Most Americans and I believe most Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle, Democrats…

Mr. Chairman, in 1984, on one of several human rights trips to Romania, the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Wolf), the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Hall), and myself pushed for the release of persecuted Christians and, in particular, Father…

A large number of national and international religious groups support this legislation, including the B'nai B'rith, National Association of Evangelicals, the U.S. Catholic Bishops' Conference, the Anti-Defamation League, the Southern…

Let us focus on exactly what kind of religious persecution this bill seeks to address. We are not talking about discrimination or harassment, although these are very bad things. This bill punishes only the worst of the worst: governments…

I urge my colleagues to vote unanimously in favor of S. Con. Res. 37. This resolution makes clear that Little League Baseball Incorporated is a bona fide nongovernmental organization and that it should be treated as such by our government…

first of all, I want to make very clear, when we talk about legislative process, the Mexico City policy was offered on this floor, it mustered a clear majority vote when it was considered. The House even went on record and instructed…

I urge a ``yes'' vote on H.R. 1757, the Foreign Relations Authorization Act (FY 1998-99). I would like to call attention to several important features of the bill: First, this legislation is not a foreign aid bill. It contains several…

Mr. Speaker, I urge every member of this body to support House Resolution 364. This strongly bipartisan resolution urges the introduction and passage of a resolution on human rights in the People's Republic of China at the 54th session of…

First of all, this resolution is a bipartisan resolution. I am very pleased and honored to have the gentleman from New York (Mr. Gilman), the chairman of the Committee on International Relations, as one of the principal cosponsors of this…

Let me just close by noting that House Concurrent Resolution 152 puts Congress on record as supporting not just the peace process, which we all want hostilities to end, but also to put human rights at the core, at the center of those…

I agree fully with the MacBride Principles, which are patterned after the Sullivan Principles, which were instrumental in eliminating, or very important in the process of eliminating, discrimination in South Africa. They are contained, as…

this authority was necessary for longtime reeducation camp victims who had been persecuted in Vietnam for their pro-U.S. associations to bring their unmarried children with them to the United States if these children have reached the age…