Chris Smith

Secretary Tillerson named China as a tier-three country, egregious violator of human trafficking.

The President, of the United States Donald Trump, has already denied funding to the United Nations Population Fund.

Thank you for your leadership, Mr. Chairman, which has been extraordinary for many, many years.

The failure to implement the rule of law to favor a type of lawlessness in the pursuit of keeping the Communist Party in power has serious and lasting implications for U.S.-China relations as well.

They stand for the right of everyone in China, religious believers, ethnic minorities, petitioners, women who have been forced to undergo forced abortions, labor activists, or victims of corrupt or of the barbaric population-control…

The issues of torture and residential surveillance in a designated location, effectively enforced disappearances, will be priorities of mine and so many others, and the chairman, our good friend, Marco Rubio, as this Commission moves…

I have asked Secretary Tillerson to start investigations under the Global Magnitsky Act, a bill that I led on the House side last year, so that any Chinese Government officials complicit in torture should be never allowed to benefit from…

Chinese officials repeatedly tell me that I should focus more on the positive aspects of China and not dwell so much on the negative.

We have seen eight years of retreat by the Obama administration.

I would like to thank the administration for faithfully and very effectively implementing longstanding U.S. law initiated under Ronald Reagan which requires the shut off of U.S. funds to any organization...

Fill it. Put the people in there. Don't double hat it, I would ask, respectfully.

Let him come and let him come now, please.

I want to thank you, the administration, for making that bold and, I think, long-missed call.

There is no better friend or diplomat or otherwise for Israel and we thank you for that as well.

I would like to say a few words in support of Representative Kristi Noem's Women, Peace and Security Act (H.R. 2484). Among other things, it highlights the role women must play in peacemaking. In the limited time we have, I would just like…

Tragically, the Obama administration in the last 2 years ignored TIP recommendations and artificially inflated, gave passing grades, to countries like China, Cuba, Oman, and Malaysia.

I would hope that you would not go that route. That would have the perverse impact of incentivizing foreign non-governmental organizations to be noncompliant with the Mexico City policy.

Global health ought to be inclusive, not exclusive of unborn children who we know now beyond any reasonable doubt are harmed in a way that is violence against children.

The Obama administration in the last 2 years ignored TIP recommendations and artificially inflated, gave passing grades, to countries like China, Cuba, Oman, and Malaysia who have egregious records when it comes to human trafficking.

Since 2013, I have chaired nine Congressional hearings focused, in whole or in a large part, on atrocities in Iraq and Syria. At one hearing in December of 2015, Professor Gregory Stanton, President of Genocide Watch testified that ``weak…

I thank the distinguished chairman for yielding, and I thank him for his leadership on this bill. I want to thank Ranking Member Engel for his support and also Majority Leader McCarthy for making sure this bill came to the floor. Without…

The resolution on the violence against American citizens outside the Turkish Embassy after Erdogan had visited with President Trump is especially egregious.

Expressing support to the Government of Argentina for its investigation into the terrorist bombing of the Embassy of Israel in Buenos Aires on March 17, 1992.

The era of strategic patience is over. In its place there is a need for more concerted action to counter North Korea's nuclear proliferation, its horrific human rights abuses, and its sponsorship of terrorism globally. This bill…

I promise to stand with Hong Kong and call attention to violations of basic human rights as long as I serve in Congress.