Chris Smith

The day of judgment will not come until Muslims fight Jews and kill them.

Hamas is disgraced. So is its proxy or its identical twin and that would be UNRWA.

Initiatives in so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences are in contradiction to the principle of the Islamic resistance movement.

There is no alternative to a fully sovereign Palestinian State on the entire national Palestinian soil with Jerusalem as its capital.

With all due respect to the President, this was a long overdue response.

Like the Nazis before them, Hamas and their chief terrorism sponsor Iran they are committing genocide against the Jews.

I want to thank President Trump, No. 1, for being the first to have the stones to defund UNRWA.

We have given them as the U.S. Government $7 billion years to date and we get crickets back.

I thank the chairman for his tremendous leadership on this and so many other important issues, including life issues. I thank Michelle Fischbach for her brave and courageous leadership, and our Speaker for making sure that this legislation…

Our bill, it has been languishing in the Senate for months, would, in addition to sanctioning those who are, with knowledge, procuring these organs, it would do a serious work within the U.S. Department of State to investigate and to…

We think somehow, if you trade more, they will matriculate from dictatorship to a democracy. Not going to happen under Xi Jinping and the CCP.

I believe when Clinton delinked MFN from human rights on May 26, 1994, that was a catastrophic game-changer for the dictatorship.

There are very serious concerns with how 501(c) tax-exempt organizations may be used not only to influence American politics and our elections, but to do so with foreign sources of funding.

What can we do to raise the issue of the churches and the people of faith, the pastors, the clergymen, that are being incarcerated?

My hope is, with the Belarus Democracy Act of 2023, that we will begin a pivot toward remembering.

I am very concerned and I am interested in hearing what you have to say on this.

In the entirety of this hearing today, not once did you mention that a kangaroo court in March convicted you of trying to influence or overthrow an election.

I cannot thank you enough. All of us feel this way. I chair the human rights committee of this Foreign Affairs Committee, and we watch everything that is going on in Belarus, and it is awful.

I think most of our partners to the south of us, whether it's Mexico or Central America, are saying why is the U.S. not doing more to secure its border to stop this flow

the issue of the cartels and everyone else who are exploiting these people one of the presidents of a Central American country, Guatemala, told me that 80 percent of the women and young girls are sexually abused somewhere along the line…

Today we appeal to President Daniel Ortega let imprisoned Catholic Bishop Alvarez go.

the idea of people looking askance and having compassion fatigue or anything like that we need to double down rather than do business as usual.

I deeply appreciate Chairwoman Salazar's incisive questioning and her passion and her unbelievably deep commitment to fundamental human rights

Thank you for that tremendous testimony, for that very important prescriptive list of actions that we, the House, Senate, and the executive branch need to undertake.

I thank my good friend for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of H. Res. 888 reaffirming the State of Israel's right to exist. I thank my good friend from New York, Mike Lawler, for introducing this timely, extremely…