Chris Smith

We have also seen pretextual crackdowns on legitimate civil dissent, justified by COVID-19 concerns, in countries such as Zimbabwe and in Nigeria.

I would point out that Mr. Barsa was here about a week ago and gave us an update on how the over $19 million at USAID is being spent.

I thank the ranking member of the subcommittee for yielding. I thank him for his leadership. I thank Chairman DeFazio so very, very much for his championing this legislation. I thank my good friend, Tom Suozzi. We have partnered before on…

Part of that is political, where we see a country such as Ethiopia, racked by civil disorder amid a health crisis.

Please update us, if you would, today, on how and why--not why, but how the nearly $1.8 billion in foreign aid funding to prevent, prepare for, and respond to COVID-19 is being spent.

It is an honor to welcome our distinguished witnesses, Assistant Secretary Tibor Nagy and Acting Administrator Chris Maloney.

How have important programs like PEPFAR and the President's Malaria Initiative been impacted by COVID-19?

Someday, future generations of Americans will look back on us and wonder how and why a society that prided itself on the commitment to human rights precluded virtually all protections to the weakest and most vulnerable--unborn children. I…

Birth is really just an event. Ultrasound has shattered the myth that an unborn child is anything but human and alive and growing. It really is up to us to do all we can to make that life as healthy as humanly possible. Victim babies, like…

First of all, I thank Mac Thornberry for his tremendous and exemplary work in Congress, especially for all things related to the military. What a tremendous chairman, now serving as ranking member. I thank him for that service. Mr…

As the proud representative of two Navy bases in NJ, I come to the floor today to offer an amendment that addresses one of the most serious threats to our Navy and sailors: North Korean & Iranian mini-submarines. Today, Mr. Speaker, we…

In China it is the rule of unjust law.

Congress has consistently demonstrated bipartisan support for the people of Hong Kong.

The great freedom-loving people of Hong Kong have just had another draconian, anti-democratic law imposed upon them.

Unless Xi Jinping reverses course, I think everyone has to be on notice in the world that every treaty obligation... are worthless.

Words matter. And it is a matter of international law that they committed for at least 50 years to having these two Chinas, Two Systems, One China.

President Trump has failed to meaningfully act in support of human rights in China or really anywhere else.

The Hong Kong Human Rights Act, and I was the House sponsor of it, it is a bipartisan bill obviously.

We need to unite now, Democrats, Republicans. We have done it before.

Xi Jinping continues to commit pervasive human rights abuse against the Chinese people, including the use of torture.

I think leadership comes from the actions that you do whether you sign a deal or not.

It is time the world wakes up.

The JUSTICE Act is designed to ensure greater transparency and accountability in policing in order to build safer communities. I cosponsored the JUSTICE Act because it is a serious, comprehensive and balanced reform initiative--an…

I want to thank my good friend for his very strong remarks today and his leadership, Brad Sherman as well, and, of course, Jim McGovern, as chairman, and I, as the ranking member of the China Commission, for the work that we have been…

Over the last two months, I have pushed for and strongly supported four comprehensive, bipartisan COVID-19 relief laws. By enacting those laws, Congress and the President have provided over $3 trillion to meet the challenges posed by the…