Christopher H. Smith

Bills Christopher H. Smith Sponsored

• United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Reauthorization Act of 2026 (H.R. 1744, Passed Congress)
• Recognizing the 50th anniversary of the Hyde Amendment and its enduring legacy of saving the lives of more than 2,600,000 unborn children and respecting the conscience rights of the American people. (H.Res. 1584, Introduced)
• Somaliland Travel and Investment Act (H.R. 10461, In Committee)
• Jimmy Lai Hong Kong Political Prisoner Accountability Act of 2026 (H.R. 10406, In Committee)
• Stop China’s Exploitation of Congolese Children and Adult Forced Labor through Cobalt Mining Act (H.R. 10346, In Committee)
• No PRC Seafood in Congress Act (H.R. 10176, In Committee)
• Stop Support for UNRWA Act of 2026 (H.R. 9893, In Committee)
• Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Reauthorization Act of 2025 (H.R. 5160, Passed the House)
• To reauthorize the Kay Hagan Tick Act, and for other purposes. (H.R. 4348, Passed the House)
• Condemning the People's Republic of China's Law on the Promotion of Ethnic Unity and Progress and the Chinese Communist Party's campaign of forced assimilation against ethnic and religious minorities. (H.Res. 1400, Introduced)
• Preventing Stomach Cancer in Our Nation’s Heroes Act (H.R. 9531, In Committee)
• Celebrating the historic anniversary of the June 24, 2022, decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. (H.Res. 1382, Introduced)

Floor Speeches

Smith spoke on the floor 20 times on 18 session days in the 119th Congress.

• House, September 16, 2026, 1,576 wordsHyde Amendment's 50th Anniversary

  50 years ago, on September 30, 1976, Congress first enacted an amendment offered by the late great Congressman Henry Hyde of Illinois to prohibit Federal Medicaid funding from being used to subsidize the killing of unborn children by abortion.

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• House, September 15, 2026, 269 wordsKay Hagan Tick Reauthorization Act

  I thank our very distinguished chairman, Brett Guthrie, for his extraordinary leadership on this and other issues related to health especially. He is a champion, and he is doing a tremendous job for the entire country. I thank Brett for what he is doing.

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• House, July 22, 2026, 31 wordsNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027

  My amendment addresses a stark and increasing threat to our Nation's critical infrastructure, the malicious use of drones, especially their use around critical military installations and law enforcement vessels.

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• House, July 20, 2026, 1,080 wordsReauthorizing the Kay Hagan Tick Act

  I thank Chairman Guthrie for his personal and extraordinarily strong support of H.R. 4348, and his staff, director Megan Jackson, Health Subcommittee staff Jay Gulshen and Emma Schultheis. I also thank my good friend, Frank Pallone, our Health Subcommittee Chair Morgan Griffith, Ranking Member Diana DeGette, as well as the original sponsors, Lloyd Doggett, Paul Tonko, and Tom Kean.

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• House, July 20, 2026, 550 wordsStem Cell Therapeutic and Research Reauthorization Act of 2025

  Each year over 3.6 million babies are born in the United States. In the past, virtually every placenta and umbilical cord was tossed as medical waste. Today, doctors have turned this medical waste into medical miracles.

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• House, June 24, 2026, 505 wordsFourth Anniversary of Dobbs Decision

  I thank my good friend and colleague for his distinguished leadership. He has been tenacious.

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• House, June 8, 2026, 618 wordsUnited States Commission on International Religious Freedom Reauthorization Act of 2026

  I thank our very distinguished chairman for his strong leadership on religious freedom generally but for this legislation as well. I do appreciate that so much. I want to thank Brad Sherman, who is the Democratic cosponsor, for his leadership in backing this important reauthorization of the United States International Religious Freedom Commission.

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• House, May 12, 2026, 1,244 wordsExpressing the Sense of the House of Representatives That the President Should Prioritize Securing the Release of Pastor Jin Mingri, Pastor GAO Quanfu and His Wife Pang Yu, Dr. Gulshan Abbas, And...

  I, like many in the House and the Senate, want to thank President Trump for requesting on numerous occasions that Xi Jinping release Jimmy Lai and other women and men who are gravely sick and unjustly incarcerated.

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• House, March 4, 2026, 483 wordsDirecting the President Pursuant to Section 5(C) of the War Powers Resolution to Remove United States Armed Forces From Unauthorized Hostilities in the Islamic Republic of Iran

  For far too long, Iran has held the world hostage with its nuclear threats, unbridled violence and hate, pervasive use of torture and rape, and Nazi-like anti-Semitism.

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• House, January 22, 2026, 2,367 wordsCelebrating and Defending Life

  Roe v. Wade was overturned by the decision in Dobbs. It was January 22, 1973, when the U.S. Supreme…

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New Jersey in Congress →

• Cory A. Booker (D, Senate)
• Andy Kim (D, Senate)
• Bonnie Watson Coleman (D, House)
• Jefferson Van Drew (R, House)
• Josh Gottheimer (D, House)
• Herbert C. Conaway, Jr. (D, House)
• Thomas H. Kean, Jr. (R, House)
• Frank Pallone, Jr. (D, House)
• LaMonica McIver (D, House)
• Analilia Mejia (D, House)
• Robert Menendez (D, House)
• Donald Norcross (D, House)
• Nellie Pou (D, House)

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