Chris Smith

We thank you so much for your efforts, you know, in engaging with India's leaders on behalf of Bindu Philips.

I am very concerned as well that there were no MOUs.

The report has to get it right and state clearly and without any ambiguity where the country stands, list the cases honestly.

One of the things that I found appalling was a pattern with the last administration in not speaking truth to power.

I urge President Trump and our Federal agencies to enforce the Goldman Act and put America's children first above other bilateral priorities.

Just as the U.S. had a civil rights leader in Dr. Martin Luther King, India had Mahatma Gandhi.

Thank you, Mr. Smith, for creating the Goldman Act.

A sophisticated form of begging.

If there ever was an Achilles heel, there are lots of them, it is the unenforced order.

Quiet diplomacy to attempt to bring these children home.

The Trump administration decides to do what the previous administration did not do: Change tack and stand up for the American parents and children.

I join you in imploring President Donald Trump to act and to act decisively.

Child abduction is child abuse and continues to plague families across the United States.

I think that point is well spoken, and I thank you for it.

H.R. 390, legislation that I have introduced, the Iraq and Syria Genocide Emergency Relief and Accountability Act, is long overdue.

I want to say I support all the bills and I thank you and Eliot Engel for again bringing all of us together.

The United States cannot stand by while genocide is perpetrated against Christians, Yazidis, or any other minority group.

Amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 390 offered by the Honorable Christopher H. Smith, a Representative in Congress from the State of New Jersey.

The key is having the right person, the right people in those gatekeeper positions and a lot of that has not happened yet.

One of the reasons why we have called this hearing was to hear from the experts who have just absolutely compelling information that needs to be heard.

It is important for them to be kept or to stay where they would rather be productive than to move into a camp.

Humanitarian aid will never resolve political conflict and I think that political decision makers in the world today when they can't get a political resolution have a tendency to put more pressure on the humanitarian players to get a…

It seems to me that whether it be USAID and our mission leaders and people on the ground or anyone else from the NGO community, we have got to just keep pounding away with these governments and all parties, including rebels, to leave the…

According to estimates by the United Nations, more than 28 million people in east Africa today desperately need immediate food aid.

I've been here 37 years; I'm in my 37th year as a Member of the House and we fought hard and back--pushed back when Obama wanted to cut tuberculosis and cut it significantly.