Chris Smith

In the spirit of transparency and accountability my amendment directs the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to probe whether the Department of Defense ever weaponized ticks with Lyme disease or any other dangerous pathogen. Two…

So at best, I would say they were misled.

Peng Peiyun told me over and over again, there is no coercion in the Chinese program, even though everyone who has followed it knows that there is, because she said the UNFPA was there, on the ground whitewashing and falsifying the truth…

By executive order, President Biden reversed the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance policy, which was a reiteration and expansion of President Ronald Reagan's Mexico City policy. Announced by Ronald Reagan at a U.N. conference on…

This needs to be clarified for all Members who are listening. The Kemp-Kasten language--is and has been--the law and has been supported in a bipartisan way for years, because we are so unalterably opposed to coercive population control. It…

The bill under consideration removes several longstanding pro-life protections and advances provisions that would force U.S. taxpayers to pay for abortion-on- demand. It removes the Hyde Amendment which protects federal taxpayers from…

Sadly the rule under consideration precludes a vote on the Cole amendment to preserve the Hyde amendment and Weldon conscience protection law as well as other pro-life amendments, including one that I first successfully offered back in…

I have three amendments that I am asking our colleagues to support. They are bipartisan amendments. The first is a redirection of $3 million to the Centers for Disease Control for Lyme disease. I would point out to my colleagues that I…

The ADDM network has been incredible in tracking children and young people to help us understand the prevalence. You can't combat something if there is no solid data. This ADDM network has been a tremendous asset. This amendment would…

Knowing what we know now about the Beijing genocide Olympics, should it be moved to another country and another city?

I would hope all of you would support it as a way of saying 'We're not kidding' when it comes to importing forced labor goods.

This is not a policy disagreement, this is not a trade dispute, this is not about politics, this is not even a question about a particular system of government. This is about genocide.

We've been asking you since 2018, when Marco Rubio and I did the letter asking that this be moved.

I think there's concern among corporate America that if you do, they will deny you access. That's how they retaliate.

But genocide is in a league of its own.

The message needs to be sent very clearly and unambiguously to China that they can't hide this genocide.

But how about moving the venue . . . with the Chinese Communist Party committing genocide?

this is absolutely special and unique--special in a very bad way-- because it's a genocide Olympics.

Let's be very clear what we are talking about here and why multiple hearings and concrete action on this topic are absolutely called for.

In retrospect, would you say that Coca-Cola is proud of its sponsorship of the 1936 Berlin Olympics?

But as a human being and as somebody--as a corporation that believes in human rights, it seems to me that you have a moral responsibility, very clear, when a genocide is ongoing, when women are being raped and in concentration camps…

For let's be very clear what we are talking about here, and why multiple hearings and concrete action on this topic are called for--first and foremost we not only see genocide and concentration camps directed against Uyghurs and Kazakhs in…

I think this is so injurious to the Olympic movement in and of itself, but above all to the victims in China--whether it be the Uyghurs, the Tibetans, the Hong Kongers.

And while I appreciate that several corporations have sent their representatives to testify at this hearing, I cannot but shake my head in dismay when I read the preening about compliance with Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)…

This is beyond an unconscionable enabling of genocide, because we know what Xi Jinping is doing with this.