Chris Smith

We should not have a foreign policy of withdrawal and isolation because we leave a void that our adversaries are only too happy to fill.

I am opposed to the administration's trying to slash funding for global health efforts.

We need to work hard to make sure that these things are taken care of.

I would like to thank Ranking Member Eliot Engel, as well as Chairman Chris Smith, and Ranking Member Karen Bass.

We must deploy adequate resources to support our interests in Africa.

We must get this right. Our diplomatic, economic, and national security interests are at stake.

A law is only as good as its enforcement.

With the current court orders in place in my case, Lebanon could for the first time return an abducted child to the United States.

Use every power at its disposal to use every tool to bring these American children home immediately.

If we would just say GSP is at risk and we mean it, we would have their attention full bore.

If we do the small things right the big things generally will tend to take care of themselves.

We talk at these problems and we don't solve them.

I urge Congress to take immediate action while the opportunity exists and block the sale of defense technology to Japan until our kidnapped children are returned to us.

Words must be backed up with actions so that Japan will recognize that enough is enough.

I implore Congress to take strong, unified action toward Japan for its ongoing refusal to return our kidnapped children.

Sanctions work. If Japan doesn't get it through your persuasion--and I thank you for trying so hard--it is time to lower the boom!

If returning kidnapped children home to the United States as the key measure of success--and it is--that would point to a failure in strategy, not success.

The Government of Japan is complicit here.

Putting America first means putting America's kidnapped children first and bringing them home.

I urge my colleagues to support the Democratic Republic of the Congo Democracy and Accountability Act of 2018. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank Chairman Royce and Ranking Member Engel for their very strong support of this legislation and for…

We have raised alarms about threats posed to Uyghur Muslims, to human rights lawyers and religious communities.

I think it should be conveyed to Xi Jinping that his war on religion is a counterproductive strategy.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin admits 'it is not a good deal' but believes it was important to unify the 'underground' Catholic Church.

Now this is the type of courageous conviction that requires not only our admiration but our action.

I would urge the Administration to support the bipartisan Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act that Senator Rubio and I introduced.