Chris Smith

H. Res. 354 focuses on essential actions needed to prevent, mitigate, and respond to deadly anti-Semitic attacks.

This timely resolution urges those governments in Europe to consider several commonsense steps aimed at improving the safety of Jewish citizens...

So what we need are anti-tank weapons, what we need is the ability to buy equipment that if they attack Dnipropetrovsk...

The right to protect has been discussed significantly within the humanitarian community.

The humanitarian space is shrinking.

Burma is a problem; Rohingya Muslims face problems. In Pakistan, as we all know, there are problems; in Iran, not just with the Baha'i who are persecuted again and have been facing that with unrelenting pressure, but also other Christians…

There is perhaps no wiser investment that we could make in the human person than to concentrate on ensuring that sufficient nutrition and health assistance is given during those first 1,000 days of life.

We are pushing very hard to get this legislation passed.

Thank you, all three, for your great testimony, for your leadership on these important issues.

Investing in global food security is a policy that is both penny-wise and pound-wise.

I am sponsor of the Global Food Security Act of 2015, a bill which in its prior iteration passed the House.

In 1983, 241 American servicemen in Beirut were killed and another 60 injured by a car bomb. One of the Marines murdered was my constituent, Paul Innocenzi III, who lived with his young family in my hometown of Hamilton. In my second term…

We will contact the administration; I know that is why we did it now, to get your insights right now so that they make the right decision.

Sudan again denies that they are sheltering the LRA despite a wealth of evidence.

I second Paul's recommendation on that. To that end, I urge you to sign on to House Resolution 394 on the LRA, a bipartisan resolution introduced by Representatives Jim McGovern and Joe Pitts.

The U.S. mission should also provide additional airlift capacity to the AU forces and increase its efforts to get LRA fighters to defect from the group.

Now is the time to double-down on the U.S. counter-LRA mission and help end the LRA's horrific reign of atrocities against civilians once and for all.

We trust the administration will decide to continue this worthy effort.

H. Res. 50, introduced by Representative Levin, calls for the release of former Ukrainian fighter pilot Nadiya Savchenko, who has been languishing in Russian prisons since she was abducted by pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine in 2014…

I do thank the distinguished gentleman for yielding and, again, I want to thank Chairman Bob Goodlatte for doing such an extraordinarily effective job as chairman of the Judiciary Committee, a true human rights champion and a man who…

Undercover videos by The Center for Medical Progress have again brought into sharp focus that some babies actually survive abortion. Dr. Ginde, medical director of Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountains, says: ``sometimes we get--if somebody…

I thank Virginia Foxx, who is a tremendous leader for life and a great leader in this Congress, for yielding. Mr. McGovern said we are wasting our time. Mr. Kildee talked about pandering, which I think is an insult. I would just like to…

President Xi comes to the U.S. next week at a time when his government is staging an extraordinary assault on the rule of law, human rights, and civil society.

These detentions were lawless, brutal, and shocking.

This is an obscenity; for an American to go to China for an organ in 2015 is to participate in an ongoing crime against humanity.