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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.
I would like to rise in very strong support of the gentleman's amendment. The need for various types of aid to the Ukraine cannot be underestimated. Last year, as chairman of the Helsinki Commission, we held a hearing on the ongoing crisis…
Mr. Chairman, I want to applaud the gentleman from New York [Mr. Lazio] for his fine amendment. I think he helps the issue of deadbeat dads or parents and will, I think, make a very strong statement to the U.N. simply to enforce their own…
on this 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's major league debut, I am proud to say that I am and always have been a fan of Jackie Robinson. Not just for his athletic prowess, but for what I believe is his greatest achievement: his ability…
Mr. Speaker, the leadership of the pro-abortion movement are highly skilled and extraordinarily savvy in masking the violence and cruelty to baby girls and boys killed by abortion and the harmful effects to women. Nobody muddies the water…
I guess everybody now knows how far the so-called pro-choice movement will go. They will lie, as one top pro-abortionist recently admitted, to sustain the myth that abortion is somehow sane, compassionate, and even pro-child. Americans…
Mr. Speaker, during the last session of Congress, the House voted six times to restrict aid to foreign organizations that perform or promote abortions overseas. We also voted to restrict aid to the U.N. Population Fund unless the UNFPA…
The Mexico City provisions were litigated. Planned Parenthood brought a suit, and they were found to be completely constitutional. Let me make a point.
foreign nongovernmental organizations are not governed by the same laws that domestic nongovernmental organizations are.
We are saying where we can protect an unborn child and a generation of unborn children from aggressive lobbying by a non-governmental organization, we are going to do it. If we cannot save all of the kids, we try to save some. To say we…
If the gentleman from Minnesota will continue to yield, the only way, because if language is silent on the Labor-HHS bill or the Federal employees health benefits program or any other program, it pays for abortion. It is incumbent upon us…
I want to thank him for his help and the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Hamilton], in bringing House Concurrent Resolution 145 which calls upon the Russian Government to remove its armed forces from the sovereign nation of Moldova. The…
let us stop kidding ourselves. Partial birth abortion is child abuse. That some otherwise smart and even brilliant people have been so thoroughly fooled by the abortion industry's outrageous lies and distortions and half-truths and those…
this past Sunday, New Jersey's Bergen Record published a lengthy investigative report about the partial-birth abortions. I was appalled to read that a single facility in New Jersey--Metropolitan Medical in Englewood--performs at least…
I commend Chairman Gilman for his leadership in ensuring the timely consideration of H.R. 3564, the NATO Enlargement Facilitation Act of 1996. As an original cosponsor of this legislation, a strong advocate of NATO enlargement, and…
Just let me say that throughout human history, the most important battles have not been those whose object was to control territory. The battles that really matter have always been about values and ideas. When the history of our century is…
I want to thank Mr. Walsh for his moral courage and leadership in putting this important language in the underlying bill--the D.C. appropriations bill. The Norton amendment, the pending amendment, would nullify Mr. Walsh's lifesaving…
Cheap shots like calling us extreme just do not have any place on this floor. If opposition to taxpayer funding of abortion is extreme then 72 percent of the American public, according to the CBS poll who are against Federal funding for…
I am dismayed at attempts to suggest otherwise. In 1995, 73 percent of the money that was expended toward the purchase of health insurance for the Federal employees came directly from the U.S. taxpayers. The remainder was picked up by the…
Mr. Chairman let the Record show that this page of text with ``From Planned Parenthood'' came from your staff. It is clearly a fair question as to who wrote this amendment? Did Planned Parenthood influence the text?
every year Planned Parenthood counsels, refers or performs over 230,000 abortions, an absolutely staggering number of children who die. Taxpayers subsidize the counseling and the referring as part of title X. Every year tens of thousands…
I am holding in my hand the amendment that Mr. Obey offered, the substitute to the Istook amendment, the Obey substitute, which in essence guts the real and tangible parental involvement provisions of Istook and makes it essentially a…
Mr. Speaker, when the People's Liberation Army massacred, maimed and incarcerated thousands of peaceful prodemocracy activists in June 1989, the well intentioned but wishful thinking that, somehow, the People's Republic of China was…
when the People's Liberation Army massacred, maimed, and incarcerated thousands of peaceful pro-democracy activists in June 1989, the well intentioned but wishful thinking that, somehow, the People's Republic of China was turning the page…
Mr. Speaker, the Clinton administrations absolute delinking of trade from human rights in 1994 was a betrayal of an oppressed people of breathtaking proportions. The Clinton administration flip-flopped on promoting human rights in China…
Mr. Chairman, if you thought taxpayers were outraged and dismayed over the revelation that the Pentagon was shelling out $500 for hammers and $600 for toilet seats, wait until they learn that Uncle Sam is now subsidizing big corporate…
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