What Christopher H. Smith said, and what was done

“Mr. Chair, 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.”

“Mr. Chair, first of all, I thank everyone involved in the process. We do this every year, but I think it is really important that we recognize the people who did all of the work to make this bill possible--certainly, the HASC staff, my able team behind me and the team that serves Mr.”

“People are talking openly about what is going to happen when the U.S. has to default in 5 years, 6 years. This is also at a time when, again, we insist on cutting taxes, cutting taxes.”

“Mr. Chair, we stumbled into a conflict in the dumbest way imaginable. In the history of the United States of America, we have made some mistakes in wars.”

“Mr. Chair, if we just stick at it long enough, we will be done. There is no plan. There is no plan to bomb a target that is going to make Iran change their mind.”

“Mr. Speaker, 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.”

“Mr. Speaker, 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.”

“Mr. Speaker, I thank my good friend and colleague for his distinguished leadership. He has been tenacious. Mr. Speaker, we have people who will be speaking and some who couldn't be here who have never given up in trying to protect and preserve the lives of women and children from the violence of abortion.”

“Mr. Speaker, 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.”

“Mr. Speaker, I rise to recognize the Colts Neck Community Church (CNCC), a vibrant non-denominational Christian community in my central New Jersey congressional district, which will celebrate, 50 years of faith-filled fellowship on May 17, 2026, and worship in their church on Merchants Way.”

“Pelosi, we were able to pass the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act. Unfortunately, it has only gotten worse since then. Yes, sanctions have been meted out, but unfortunately, Xi Jinping has incarcerated the best, the bravest, and the brightest in all of China.”

“There is a great deal of support for Jimmy Lai. As we all know, he is 78. He got a 20-year prison sentence on top of the 5 he has already served.”

“Mr. Speaker, on March 10, 2026, the citizens of Wall, New Jersey will officially recognize the 175th anniversary of the founding of their Township, a historic and vibrant municipality located in the 4th Congressional District of New Jersey.”

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the distinguished gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, 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.”

“Court infamously said that the unborn child has no worth, no standing in law whatsoever, and legalized abortion right until the moment of birth. We have tried for years.”

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from Minnesota for her very eloquent remarks, and as former president of the Minnesota Senate, where she was a great leader there.”

“Mr. Speaker, I now recognize the gentlewoman from Illinois (Mrs. Miller), who is a great voice, has great strength on behalf of the family and the unborn child, and has a number of bills that she has offered dealing with the life issue.”

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from Illinois (Mrs. Miller) for her great leadership. Her voice is always there, and I thank her so much for that. Mr.”

“Mr. Speaker, I thank Bob for his leadership. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Wyoming (Ms. Hageman). I would just point out for the record that she has 34 years as a litigator, is admitted to practice in several States and the United States Supreme Court, and is a distinguished member of the Committee on the Judiciary.”

“Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Clyde). He is a combat veteran who served for 28 years, a member of the Committee on Appropriations, and just has been, again, outspoken and very effective over these years on defending the unborn.”

“Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Grothman), who has four committee assignments: Budget, Judiciary, Education and Workforce, and Oversight and Government Reform. I don't know where he finds the time, but I do thank him for his great leadership on pro-life.”

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the distinguished chairman for yielding and for his leadership. I especially want to thank Michelle Fischbach for her leadership and compassion by offering and authoring this legislation to protect pregnancy care centers from discrimination and to ensure that they can continue their important work of assisting families in need.”

“Mr. Speaker, Democrats are fear-mongering today. The majority of pregnancy resource centers have voluntarily signed on to industry standards, a call to commitment of care and competence created by Heartbeat International.”

“We comply with applicable legal and regulatory requirements regarding employment, fundraising, financial management, taxation, and public disclosure including the filing of all applicable government reports in a timely manner.”

“Ms. DelBENE. Mr. Speaker, I have heard story after story of people seeking care from crisis pregnancy centers only to be provided with misleading or deceptive medical information or services that endanger their health.”

“What they are celebrating is subsidizing insurers for people without a pulse. For Democrats, fraud comes first. Mr. Speaker, Republicans are putting real, living Americans first. Republicans blocked illegal immigrants' access to taxpayer-funded healthcare benefits, then eliminated over $185 billion worth of fraud and waste in the ObamaCare marketplace.”

“Mr. Speaker, I thank my good friend for yielding. Mr. Speaker, Hyde amendment protections need to be added to this bill. Taxpayer funds should not be forced to subsidize the killing of an unborn child by dismemberment or by baby poison pills.”

“Mr. Speaker, abortion is not healthcare unless one construes the life of an unborn child to be analogous to a tumor to be excised or a disease to be vanquished.”

“Mr. Speaker, I remind this body that the reason why these COVID-era tax credits expired is because the Democrats focused all their resources on helping their wealthy environmentalists with permanent tax credits for electric vehicles and solar panels.”

“Mr. Speaker, I rise, to commemorate the work of my friend and colleague Donald Payne, Jr. on what would have been his 67th birthday had he not passed away far too soon.”

“We need to continue to be a democracy. We need to continue to support free speech. I think part of our obligation as Congress is to exercise that oversight when that impacts certainly what is going on at the Department of Defense, as it clearly is.”

“Mr. Speaker, I thank my good friend, the distinguished chairman, for yielding and for the job he is doing as chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.”

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize and honor one of the bravest and most highly decorated combat soldiers of World War II--Leonard G. ``Bud'' Lomell--by naming the new Veterans outpatient clinic in Toms River, New Jersey in his honor.”

“Seargeant Lomell directing his men as they landed under the withering fire of the German forces.'' For his amazing leadership and extraordinarily brave acts, Bud Lomell received the Distinguished Service Cross--the second highest military decoration.”

“Mr. Speaker, 3 years ago today, the infamous holding of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey were reversed by the Dobbs decision, brilliantly written by Justice Samuel Alito, who hails from my State and from my home county, joined by the majority of the Supreme Court.”

“Mr. Speaker, I thank our very distinguished Speaker for his remarks. No one is more articulate, more passionate, or more informed on the issues of life across the board than our Speaker, and what a leader he is.”

“Madam Speaker, I thank my good friend (Mrs. Miller of Illinois) for her leadership and legislation. We have to get that passed. She has been a tremendous spokeswoman for years and to this day, so I thank her very much.”

“Madam Speaker, I thank Russ Fulcher for his leadership as well. He is on point. Madam Speaker, I recognize the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Biggs), a distinguished member of the Judiciary Committee, a very good friend, and a very powerful voice on so many issues, including defending the unborn.”

“Madam Speaker, I thank Andy Biggs for his leadership for so many years and for his articulate protection in defense of innocent human life, which, again, was on full display today.”

“Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for his strong statement. It is really an honor to serve with him on the Foreign Affairs Committee. We have many battles there as some try to push international funding for abortion.”

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for reminding us of that very profound truth from ``Horton Hears a Who!'' ``A person is a person, no matter how small.'' I love that.”

“Madam Speaker, I thank my good friend and colleague and welcome him to the House. He is doing a great job. I thank him. I would again point out that we do have one final speaker on his way, Dr.”

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the Representative from Missouri (Mr. Onder) for his tremendous work, including in the legislature before he came here. He was the author of several important initiatives.”

“Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my good friend, Dan Evans, for introducing this resolution condemning the antisemitic terror attack in Boulder, Colorado in which the attacker threw a Molotov cocktail while shouting an anti-Israel slogan.”

“Mr. Speaker, I am proud to be an original cosponsor of H. Res. 481, authored by my good friend Mr. Van Drew. This resolution condemns the shocking and horrifying spike in antisemitic attacks on U.S. soil, including the recent murderous attacks in Boulder, Colorado, at the Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., and the attack on Gov.”

“Keating of Massachusetts, for leading this bipartisan effort. The bill passed the Foreign Affairs Committee with broad, bipartisan support, and I urge my colleagues to join in advancing it on the floor today.”

“Multiple lines of evidence reviewed by the China Tribunal over 12 months included undercover phone calls to Chinese surgeons and officials who admitted that Falun Gong practitioners' organs are available on demand.”

“Mr. Speaker, today I joined Kristan Hawkins, Marjorie Dannenfelser from Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and many distinguished pro-life leaders to call for the defunding of Planned Parenthood--Child Abuse, Incorporated--an organization that has slaughtered over ten million babies in their clinics and kills more than a thousand defenseless unborn babies each and every day.”

“Mr. Speaker, nestled along the southern shore of the Toms River, in Ocean County, New Jersey, just near the mouth of the beautiful Barnegat Bay, is the Borough of Pine Beach.”

“Mr. Speaker, today marks a sad and brutal anniversary: the violent crushing in 1959 by the Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army of a patriotic movement that resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Tibetans and the fleeing into exile of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama.”

“Madam Speaker, I thank my friend for yielding, and I thank Ann Wagner for her tremendous leadership and courage in authoring this important bill. Madam Speaker, in a Florida abortion clinic, Sycloria Williams delivered a perfectly healthy, live baby girl at 23 weeks.”

“Mr. Speaker, I wish to reiterate my strong support for normalizing our tax treatment of Taiwan and for legislation which passed this House last week on January 15, 2025, H.R. 33, the United States-Taiwan Expedited Double-Tax Relief Act, introduced by my good friend and colleague Jason Smith of Missouri.”

“Mr. Speaker, I wish to underscore my strong support of H.R. 23, the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act, and highlight the immediate need to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) for its dangerous abuse of power and for the United States to repudiate these actions.”