Chris Smith

About 1,000 political prisoners... are being tortured by the Hong Kong police.

The promise of one country, two systems... has proven to be a fiction.

This bill expands sanctions on North Korea and war criminal Putin as they reveal the new axis of evil.

I do support the ANS.

First, let me thank Chairwoman Young Kim for authoring this very, very important bill, the Uyghur Policy Act of 2023. Thank you for your leadership on this. It's very, very much needed.

I am concerned that we could inadvertently be playing into Beijing's hand by helping shut the door on Hong Kong's return to autonomy.

Hong Kong today is not the Hong Kong many of us knew, respected, and supported.

The basic law has been trashed.

The Sino-U.K. Treaty has been abrogated with impunity.

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…

They have now however become three additional hostile Chinese outposts in the United States.

And I want to thank Jim McGovern, who is a good friend, for sponsoring it.

I do rise in strong support of H.R. 588--533, I should say.

I co-chair the Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Anti-semitism, and what we see at the U.N.

We have to be clear in our condemnation of what Hamas did, in our focus on a peaceful future. But it cannot happen until Hamas is defeated.

Today, Israel is defending itself from a cowardly invasion and massacre by Hamas. It has an absolute right to defend itself.

I do support President Biden's call for a humanitarian pause to get food, water, medicine in to civilians that need that.

I would say you have to have people to monitor the classrooms, because the teachers themselves are so full of hate toward Jews that even if you had the right textbooks it would be conveyed.

A lasting peace agreement will only come from direct negotiations from two sides. It cannot be imposed by an international organization such as the United Nations.

Israel has a right to prosecute a war against Hamas. They were attached, and they have a right to defend themselves.

Make no mistake, anti-semitic bigotry is at the root of the UN's hostility to Israel, which is ugly, evil, and manifests in almost every U.N. entity.

We have got to try to hold on to that possibility, otherwise I fear, you know, my Israeli friends will never be able to live in peace.

I have been in the fight against anti-semitism for all of my 43 years in the U.S. Congress.

Francesca Albanese...employed torturous logic to say that Israel has no right to self-defense against Hamas under international law, which is absolutely absurd.

More than 20 years ago, the U.S. Congress approved and the president signed historic legislation that I had authored called the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.