Chris Smith

I want to thank you for authoring the Prohibiting Future Ransom Payments to Iran Act, which is a reaction to, I think, what was an egregiously flawed decision by the administration to provide hard currency.

The lack of religious liberty in Eritrea is only one aspect of human rights violations

Yesterday we introduced H. Res. 861 and are planning a series of hearings on Ethiopia to very strongly protest the gross violations of human rights.

I want to thank Chairman Goodlatte for his extraordinary work on this legislation, Mr. Conyers, and, of course, Peter King who has been absolutely tenacious picking up the good work that Dan Lungren, a former member of Congress and…

I thank Chairman Royce for his leadership on AGOA in general. I thank Karen Bass, who has worked doggedly for years, last year for the reauthorization. I see Mr. McDermott, who has also been so active over the years on this and critical to…

I want to thank the distinguished chairman for yielding and for his leadership on this issue and Ranking Member Engel, and especially thank Chairman Salmon for authoring this important piece of legislation. North Korea, as we know, poses…

Our shared jurisdiction over international energy issues is an important piece of U.S. foreign policy.

I thank the chairwoman for working with the Science Committee to host today's hearing.

I want to thank my good friend, Mr. Harper, and Ms. Esty for their strong support for the bill. Ms. Esty is one of the cosponsors of the bill. I also want to thank Chairwoman Miller for her leadership and good work in shepherding this…

If we fail to hold South Sudan's political leaders on both sides accountable for the atrocities committed we cannot expect anything to change.

I hope that we will be serious in terms of implementation of it.

There should never be an instance in which American diplomats are specifically targeted ever.

It is still a man-made crisis. It is still a crisis political in nature.

I just think that this situation has reached--and we all know this--has reached dire proportions.

I joined several of my colleagues in a letter to President Obama outlining the severity of the deteriorating situation in South Sudan and calling on the U.S. to lead the way in calling for an arms embargo on South Sudan to stop the…

We cannot just have a double standard, saying we can overthrow that government in Ukraine and the Russians have to accept it.

We have to expect Russia to watch out for its own interests.

That was a conspiracy from our EU members and in collusion with the United States to overthrow an elected government.

We don't hate the people of Iran. We don't like the mullahs and that vicious dictatorship of the mullahs that is pro-terrorist.

This language, well-meaning as it is, to me looks like an engraved invitation to do something other than recognize Ukraine's sovereignty over the Crimea.

Our maps did not recognize that they had been annexed, conquered by the Soviet Union. And we stood firm.

To accept Russian aggression in Crimea and with respect to Ukraine is just going to invite additional Russian aggression.

This isn't something designed in any way to embarrass the leadership of this committee.

They need our support. They need to know in Kiev that we are unwavering.

This isn't a Democratic or Republican issue.