Chris Smith

I have chaired numerous hearings on religious freedom since the mid-1990s.

I thank my good friend and colleague Ileana Ros-Lehtinen for yielding. I want to thank the chairman emeritus of the full Foreign Affairs Committee for the defense of vulnerable persons in China, especially the Falun Gong, men and women who…

I want to thank Chairman Royce again for bringing this important bill to the floor, and to Eliot Engel for his leadership and Mr. Deutch, and especially to Mr. Trott, the sponsor of H.R. 3694, the Strategy To Oppose Predatory Organ…

And for the record, how much are we spending on Feed the Future in fiscal year 2016?

Folic acid could be not a panacea but part of the solution.

I wrote three laws on combating autism including the Combating Autism Act.

I would like to express my gratitude to you, Chairman Smith, for introducing the Global Food Security Act.

I do hope the committee will consider the bill. It already has a huge majority of the House supporting it.

They found that a result of this legislation net federal health spending would decrease by $692 million over a 10-year period.

To ensure that optimum care to every Alzheimer's patient is provided, we need to find innovative ways to improve the quality of care.

Alzheimer's is also the most expensive disease in America. It incurs catastrophic cost to Medicaid and to Medicare: approximately $236 billion in 2016, alone.

This disease is devastating. We all know people who have had it--and friends and family members--to both the patient and family, alike.

As co-founder with Ed Markey some 16 years ago of the Congressional Alzheimer's Task Force, and as co-chair for the past 16 years, I am very grateful to you for providing me with the opportunity to speak about my bill, H.R. 1559, the…

I founded the Autism Caucus, I have written three laws on autism, including the most recent Autism CARES Act.

It should be a part of our long-term foreign policy strategy to preserve Christianity in the Middle East

The only way for an effective safe haven mechanism is obviously laying a foundation for the successful liberation of Mosul

To me, that has got to change. I mean, that is unconscionable.

I believe strongly--and if you want to elaborate on that--that you could put exclamation points on that for the Christians, the Yazidis.

Thank you, Chairman Rohrabacher, for your very powerful statement and for your leadership on human rights.

I don't want future generations to look back on this generation of Americans and say: They closed their ears...

We need to make sure that when Christians are under the threat of genocide, that they should have some priority

The Christians who are the basic target, the most vocalized target of these radical Muslims... are underrepresented

Our President has not come to the standard that I believe is adequate to deal with this horrible situation

I renewed my call again for a Syrian war crimes tribunal to be established.

The world knew that ISIS was committing genocide.