Chris Smith

I authored a law to establish a special envoy to combat anti-Semitism.

On Monday, American Pastor Andrew Brunson endured a 12-hour-long hearing on the groundless terrorism charges he faced.

We need to combine our nutrition interventions not only with coordinated de-worming campaigns.

Stunting has dropped significantly.

I would remind my colleagues that there are 800 million hungry people in the world today.

This is bipartisan legislation that has worked and this is the reauthorization to continue.

Amendment to H.R. 5129 offered by the Honorable Christopher H. Smith, a Representative in Congress from the State of New Jersey.

First of all, let me thank Chairman Royce for his very kind remarks. I want to thank him for his extraordinary leadership on combating human trafficking for so many years. This bill is just another example of that ironclad commitment to…

To close. Mr. Speaker, I include these letters of support in the Record. I call attention to the membership an excellent letter written by human rights and diaspora groups, six groups in all. It is entitled, ``Ethiopia: Joint Letter About…

That's why we have had so many hearings, not only to hear from left-behind parents and experts like Patricia Apy but also to try to hold them to account, to say listen to both spirit and letter of the law and just follow it

It seems to me this needs to be the year of getting the report accurate with regards to countries like Japan.

They have to experience some pain.

We cannot allow Japan to continue to be noncompliant. These are children.

I think your point about upcoming meetings with Mr. Abe is an excellent opportunity for the President to raise these issues.

By just stating the clear truth with the backdrop of the Goldman Act as the criteria, I don't see how Japan can be anywhere but is my complaint.

Could you make that request or at least an inquiry as to whether or not this process can be followed?

We can do it with our best friends when American children are abducted.

But as you know, it's already been done toward the grandparents.

It seems like those tools stay in the toolbox.

The promises were entirely illusionary.

In 2014, Congress adopted legislation that I wrote known as the Sean and David Goldman International Child Abduction Prevention and Return Act.

According to the U.S. Department of State and their statistics, almost 800 children are today held hostage in a foreign country, separated from their American parent.

Child abduction is child abuse and continues to plague families across the United states and, really, around the world.

I thank Dr. Harris for his leadership for many, many years. He is an extraordinary physician-- Johns Hopkins and so many other places where he has been an anesthesiologist, and we are so grateful for the expertise and precision that he…

I would always say that human rights violations, particularly on such a massive scale, absolutely rise to the level of a national security issue for the United States.