Christopher H. Smith, R-NJ

Christopher H. Smith is a Republican Representative from New Jersey's House District 4.

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Sponsored Legislation:

The list below shows the pieces of legislation (including bills, resolutions, and amendments) that this legislator has sponsored. Not all pieces of legislation have been brought for a roll call vote.

• hjres98-119 - Supporting the designation of the month of June as "Life Month". (aka Life Month Resolution)
• hjres82-119 - Disapproving the action of the District of Columbia Council in approving the Insurance Regulation Amendment Act of 2024.
• hconres27-119 - Expressing support for the work of open water lifeguards as first responders and emergency response providers.
• hr2796-119 - To reauthorize the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, and for other purposes. (aka Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2025)
• hres586-119 - Recognizing and applauding President Trump for brokering a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and supporting diplomatic and economic efforts to achieve lasting peace in the region.
• hres559-119 - Recognizing the urgent need for peace, stability, and reconciliation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and supporting diplomatic, economic, and humanitarian efforts to achieve lasting peace in the region.
• hres479-119 - Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives on the urgent need to appoint a Special Envoy for Sudan to address the ongoing conflict and humanitarian crisis and to advance United States national security interests.
• hres220-119 - Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the need to designate Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern for engaging in and tolerating systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom, and for other purposes.
• hr3122-119 - To advance United States national interests by prioritizing the protection of internationally recognized human rights and development of the rule of law in relations between the United States and Vietnam, and for other purposes. (aka Vietnam Human Rights Act)
• hr7-119 - To prohibit taxpayer funded abortions. (aka No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2025)
• hr3201-119 - To reauthorize and modify the Belarus Democracy Act of 2004. (aka Belarus Democracy, Human Rights, and Sovereignty Act of 2025)
• hr4829-119 - To address transnational repression by foreign governments against private individuals, and for other purposes. (aka Transnational Repression Policy Act)
• hr2170-119 - To name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Toms River, New Jersey, the Leonard G. 'Bud' Lomell, VA Clinic, and for other purposes.
• hr2522-119 - To designate the area between the intersections of 18th Street Northwest and Church Street Northwest, and 18th Street Northwest and P Street Northwest, in the District of Columbia as "Jimmy Lai Way", and for other purposes.
• hr2310-119 - To ensure that goods made using or containing cobalt refined in the People's Republic of China do not enter the United States market under the presumption that the cobalt is extracted or processed with the use of child and forced labor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (aka China’s Odious and Brutally Atrocious Labor Trafficking Supply Chain Act)
• hr1504-119 - To withdraw normal trade relations treatment from, and apply certain provisions of title IV of the Trade Act of 1974 to, products of the People's Republic of China, and to expand the eligibility requirements for products of the People's Republic of China to receive normal trade relations treatment in the future, and for other purposes. (aka China Trade Relations Act of 2025)
• hr1503-119 - To combat forced organ harvesting and trafficking in persons for purposes of the removal of organs, and for other purposes. (aka Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2025)
• hr2961-119 - To reauthorize the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, and for other purposes. (aka Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2025)
• hr3225-119 - To reauthorize and modify the Belarus Democracy Act of 2004. (aka Belarus Democracy, Human Rights, and Sovereignty Act of 2025)
• hr1144-119 - To reauthorize the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, and for other purposes. (aka Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2025)
• hr4348-119 - To reauthorize the Kay Hagan Tick Act, and for other purposes.
• hr4732-119 - To expand the definition of "severe forms of trafficking in persons" to include the recruitment, harboring, transportation, transfer, or receipt of orphaned, abandoned, or minors living in public or private residential facilities, and for other purposes. (aka Orphanage Trafficking Prevention and Protection Act)
• hr2097-119 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a refundable credit against income tax for tuition expenses incurred for each qualifying child of the taxpayer in attending public or private elementary or secondary school. (aka Education, Achievement, and Opportunity Act)
• hr2661-119 - To require the President to remove the extension of certain privileges, exemptions, and immunities to the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices if Hong Kong no longer enjoys a high degree of autonomy from the People's Republic of China, and for other purposes. (aka Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) Certification Act)
• hr2521-119 - To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to protect opportunities for families in the Federal student aid process, and for other purposes. (aka American Family FAFSA Opportunity Act of 2025)
• hr1744-119 - To extend and authorize annual appropriations for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom through fiscal year 2026. (aka United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Reauthorization Act of 2025)
• hr2161-119 - To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit certain types of human-animal chimeras. (aka Human-Animal Chimera Prohibition Act of 2025)
• hr4830-119 - To expand the imposition of sanctions under the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 with respect to human rights abuses in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China and to counter the genocidal policies of the Government of the People's Republic of China, and for other purposes. (aka Uyghur Genocide Accountability and Sanctions Act of 2025)
• hr2226-119 - To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit discrimination against entities that do not participate in abortion and to strengthen implementation and enforcement of Federal conscience laws. (aka Let Pregnancy Centers Serve Act of 2025)
• hr4113-119 - To reauthorize the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, and for other purposes. (aka Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2025)
• hr3737-119 - To address Chinese Communist Party efforts to censor the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, and for other purposes. (aka Tiananmen Massacre Transparency and Accountability Act)

Vote Summary

The chart below shows all the votes cast by this legislator. The bars are color-coded by party. Red bars indicate votes cast in support of Republican-sponsored legislation or against Democrat-sponsored legislation; blue bars indicate the opposite.

See the about page for the methodology we use to determine what is and is not a party-line vote.