Chris Smith

Like you, I would not be here doing what I do if I did not believe in the power of prayer, God's mercy and His abiding love.

There will come a time when our children will ask us, 'Well, where were you? Where were you when they were killing little girls just because they were little girls?'

If that is not wrong, nothing on Earth is wrong. God help us to hold to that reality.

There is sort of a dialogue going on in the country about 'what war on women?' I don't know of anything that is a more overt war on women than killing them simply because they are female.

I believe--and I do believe I share the views of my colleagues--that by shining a light on what is happening in China with its missing daughters, we hope to move toward a world where every woman is valued and deeply respected because of…

Just enforce the law. Make those who are treating women in such a horrific manner ineligible to come to the United States. It is not rocket science.

The global crisis of missing girls constitutes a gross human rights abuse--which is aptly described as gendercide--the extermination of the girl child in society simply because she happens to be a girl.

I thank you so much. You really have given the Commission a tremendous amount of input, guidance, and inspiration.

Given that the Obama administration, the United Nations, and especially the UN Population Fund [UNFPA] have failed to adequately address the scandal of gendercide, what needs to be done to end these massive crimes against women?

We are holding this hearing today not only to better understand the magnitude of the problem, but to find better ways to help rescue the next generation of potentially missing girls from violence and death.

There are tens of millions of missing girls in China today. It is a predictable consequence of Beijing's cruel and barbaric child limitation policies and cultural preference for boys.

Today I am asking boldly in faith for the leaders in America, the leaders in China, and the Almighty God to bring a swift end to gendercide, to save every little precious girl, simply because they are girls.

I thank my good friend for yielding. I want to congratulate Chairman Royce on the Electrify Africa Act as a companion bill to the legislation that we have before us today. We held a hearing in my subcommittee that Karen Bass will remember…

I want to thank my good friend and colleague, the distinguished chairman, Ed Royce, for his persistence and creativity in finding new ways to hold the administration accountable for preventing human trafficking, especially in government…

In a February 2016 speech, President and Party General Secretary Xi Jinping declared that the media 'must be surnamed Party' (bixu xing dang) and called for 'absolute loyalty' to the Party from official media outlets and personnel.

I thank the distinguished chairman for yielding. I rise in strong support of H.R. 757, the North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act of 2016. Mr. Speaker, there is a compelling need to pass tough and effective legislation to freeze the assets…

In May 1994... President Clinton ripped in half his Executive order and decoupled human rights from trade.

They have gone from bad to worse on Internet restrictions.

They have 6,000 suicides per day--not week, month--per day. And that is from their own CDC numbers, largely attributable to this draconian policy which just invades women and kills their babies and hurts them.

Let me just, you know, to Chairman Salmon, we had the exact same goal, all of us, and it was to promote democracy, freedom, and human rights for the great people of China.

Despite President Xi's public commitment to implement the rule of law, that is often a cover for lawlessness.

In our Political Prisoner Database, which we believe is the best in the world, the Commission has carefully compiled the information of over 8,000 cases, including over 1,300 currently detained prisoners of conscience.

Bill Clinton properly said that he was coddling dictatorship.

But what I don't see is all of the intellectual capacity of Silicon Valley being used to smash that wall.

I have been raising that issue doggedly since 1983, when I first learned about it; offered the first bill in Congress to criticize it, call it crimes against humanity.