Chris Smith

This subcommittee of the House directed by Congressman Christopher Smith has been an unshakeable bastion of the promotion and defense of the freedom values of the American nation.

Today we will examine the sorry state of the civil and political rights in the Castro brothers' Cuba.

To think that we are waging a war for the minds of Muslims around the world and haven't hired a single person...

What a bizarre approach. What a pro-Islamabad approach. What an approach that does not match America's interest.

If we do provide aid, we ought to provide free textbooks, so that parents don't have that burden...

Friends don't let friends commit human rights abuses.

The proclivity to recommit these crimes is so very, very high--well-documented that we've got to ensure that for the sake of children there's at least a noticing requirement.

This is why I get concerned about reports that suggest it's not as big of a problem or, I mean, we had this and tried to do something back in 1996...

You make a great point about human trafficking, the TIP heroes, including a group or a person fighting with trafficking, combating hereditary slavery in Mauritania.

I did travel to Cuba in January and met with individuals at the Ministry of Health to talk about our concerns with respect to the medical missions...

I can't even get a visa to go to Cuba.

If implemented would constitute making significant efforts to meet.

The heinous crime of gender, and it is a crime, in my opinion.

The written plan is still awaiting implementation as far as I can tell.

The tierage of China, obviously, has kept them off Tier 3, which is where I and so many others who work on human rights in China believe they ought to be.

Falsifying a country's human rights record, particularly when it comes to branding what tier it ought to be not only undermines the credibility of the report but was especially dehumanizing to the victims who suffer rape, cruelty, and…

I remain concerned that both last year's TIP Report and the current one gave passing grades to several nations with horrific records of government complicity in human trafficking.

It is the gentleman who called it murder. I call it the taking of human life. We need to hold the abortionists liable. We, in the pro-life movement, look at the women as co-victims. I have worked--I say to my friend from Florida--with well…

Absolutely not. Thank you for the question. Let me point out that every bill we have brought--the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban, the Born Alive Act, every single piece of legislation that would seek to protect the lives of unborn…

I thank the gentleman from Florida for his extraordinary leadership on this bill and on the life issue. Mr. Chairman, on June 8, 1983, 33 years ago, I sponsored the amendment to ban the use of taxpayer funds to subsidize abortion in the…

Of course, sanctions--the ultimate goal of a sanctions program is to change the behavior...

I think I would say that the sanctions were working across the board on the variety of objectives that we have.

I would say that is a question of foreign policy and I defer to my State Department colleagues.

The perpetrators of torture have been treated with impunity in Vietnam while those who reported or believed to have reported torture and human rights abuses are being persecuted

If the United States leads and leads with transparency and strength and really speaks truth to power...