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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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Jun 6, 2017

I thank the distinguished chairman for yielding, and I thank him for his leadership on this bill. I want to thank Ranking Member Engel for his support and also Majority Leader McCarthy for making sure this bill came to the floor. Without…

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Jun 6, 2017

Since 2013, I have chaired nine Congressional hearings focused, in whole or in a large part, on atrocities in Iraq and Syria. At one hearing in December of 2015, Professor Gregory Stanton, President of Genocide Watch testified that ``weak…

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May 2, 2017

The era of strategic patience is over. In its place there is a need for more concerted action to counter North Korea's nuclear proliferation, its horrific human rights abuses, and its sponsorship of terrorism globally. This bill…

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Apr 25, 2017

I thank the distinguished chairman for yielding and for his leadership. I especially thank my good friend and colleague, Ms. Bass, for this resolution. Mr. Speaker, last August, my staff director Greg Simpkins and I visited Juba, South…

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Mar 24, 2017

While the Affordable Care Act has been in effect since 2010, it has only provided actual access to health insurance benefits through the exchange and Medicaid expansion for a little over 3 years--beginning in 2014. In that short period of…

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Feb 16, 2017

I thank the gentlewoman for her extraordinary leadership on the life issue. Madam Speaker, subsidized by over $500 million taxpayer dollars each year, Planned Parenthood dismembers or chemically poisons a baby to death every 2 minutes…

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Jan 24, 2017

I thank the gentleman so much for his leadership. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Franks).

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Jan 24, 2017

Thank you very much for your eloquence and reminding us all that the Supreme Court itself said that we need not resolve the difficult question of when human life begins; then they went on to say that any child, at any point until birth…

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Jan 24, 2017

I thank the gentleman so very much for his kind remarks, but also his very eloquent concern for post-abortive women and those who may be contemplating abortion. You know, the Pregnancy Care Network, 4,000 strong throughout the United…

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Jan 24, 2017

I thank the gentleman for his very passionate and incisive remarks. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. LaMalfa), a member of the Transportation and Infrastructure, the Agriculture, and the Natural Resources…

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Jan 24, 2017

I want to thank the distinguished chairwoman of the Education and the Workforce Committee for her kind remarks and again thank her for her leadership for so many years. I now yield to the gentleman from Arizona, Congressman Andy Biggs…

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Jan 24, 2017

I thank my good friend for his remarks. I now yield to the distinguished gentlewoman from North Carolina (Ms. Foxx), the chairwoman of the Education and the Workforce Committee, who has been outspoken for years on behalf of the innocent…

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