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townhall.comPrinter-friendly versionArrogance on the HillRobert Novak (back to web version) | Send January 10, 2005 WASHINGTON -- "We are looking more and more like the Democrats we replaced," a House committee chairman told me Wednesday. That comment came before he learned, to his surprise and sorrow, that the House Republican leadership had removed Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey as chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee. The extraordinary purge buttressed the growing impression of arrogance as Republicans enter their second decade of power in the House. The party's House leaders purportedly removed Smith, a tireless promoter of spending for veterans,...

Veterans outraged over ousting Smith from committee   By: KATHLEEN CANNON (Fri, Jan/07/2005)  TRENTON - Burlington County veterans are outraged that House Republicans stripped U.S. Rep. Chris Smith of the chairmanship of the Veterans Affairs Committee.At the behest of GOP leaders, Republican House members voted Wednesday to oust Smith, R-4th of Robbinsville, from the committee he chaired for four years and served on for 24. They blamed a series of budget and philosophical clashes with Smith."This is terrible. I've known him for 25 years. A man of higher integrity you'll never find,'' said Ed Kelley of Mount Laurel, a...

Started about 2 minutes ago - Congressman Smith still giving opening statement....

Bill Highlighting Unborn Child's Pain Introduced by Pro-Life Leaders in CongressWASHINGTON (May 31, 2004) - - Pro-life leaders in Congress, with the strong backing of National Right to Life, have introduced a major new legislative initiative that throws a spotlight on the pain inflicted on unborn children by abortion.The Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act was introduced on May 20 by Senator Sam Brownback (R-Ks.) (S. 2466) and Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) (H.R. 4420), with numerous cosponsors.NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson, who appeared with Brownback and Smith at a press conference in the U.S. Capitol announcing the new legislation, said, "There...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A leading pro-life Congressman has placed internal documents from the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) into the Congressional Record. The action makes the documents publicly available in light of threatening letters CFAM and LifeNews.com have received seeking to stop the dissemination of the materials. The Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute (CFAM), a pro-life organization that lobbies at the United Nations, announced earlier this month that an anonymous source sent it copies of a 60-page document summarizing the conclusions of strategic planning meetings held by CRR in late October. Pro-life Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) entered the...

Presidential Candidate Kucinich Attacks Leading Pro-Life Lawmaker by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor July 21, 2003 Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- When Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) decided to run for president, he upset the pro-life community by abandoning his long-held pro-life beliefs. Now, he's having a hard time selling his newfound pro-abortion position. In an attempt to distance himself from his former pro-life voting record, Kucinich accused a leading pro-life member of Congress of wanting to put women in jail who have had abortions. In an interview with Chris Matthews on MSNBC's "Hardball" last Tuesday, Kucinich said he disagreed with criminalizing abortion...

Smith Wins Parliamentary Assembly Approval of Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism, Human Trafficking 7/8/03 6:32:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Ben Anderson of the Helsinki Commission, 202-225-1901 e-mail: Ben.Anderson@mail.house.gov; web: http://www.csce.gov WASHINGTON, July 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- United States Helsinki Commission Chairman Rep. Christopher H. Smith (R-N.J.) returned to Washington today after winning passage of measures to combat anti-Semitism and human trafficking while attending the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's 12th annual Parliamentary Assembly. Chairman Smith's two resolutions draw on his leadership during last year's parliamentary assembly in spearheading a forum to combat anti-Semitism and his legislative...

CHARLESTON, WV -- The Democratic Party meltdown continued today with losing Charleston mayoral candidate Chris Smith blasting his own party on the heels of Secretary of State Joe Manchin opening a "Republican-lite" challenge to Gov. Bob Wise. In a letter to supporters, Chris Smith said his own Democratic party didn't do enough to rally behind him as he lost the Charleston mayoral race to Republican Danny Jones, according to the Charleston Daily Mail. "With regard to the Republican Party, there was unity," he said. "With regard to the Democratic Party, it had been fractured for at least a year. As...

Republican overcomes underdog status Seizing momentum as the campaign wore on, Republican Danny Jones romped to victory as Charleston’s next mayor Tuesday night, capturing more than 57 percent of the vote over Democrat Chris Smith. Jones, energized by $75,000 worth of television ads and $17,000 in mass mailings in the last few weeks of the campaign, overcame Smith’s substantial primary campaign momentum to win. Jones said he knew he would be victorious on election night after seeing the first precincts tabulated from the West Side, where he won handily. He promised to stick with the job, in response to...

Republican overcomes underdog status Seizing momentum as the campaign wore on, Republican Danny Jones romped to victory as Charleston’s next mayor Tuesday night, capturing more than 57 percent of the vote over Democrat Chris Smith. Jones, energized by $75,000 worth of television ads and $17,000 in mass mailings in the last few weeks of the campaign, overcame Smith’s substantial primary campaign momentum to win. Jones said he knew he would be victorious on election night after seeing the first precincts tabulated from the West Side, where he won handily. He promised to stick with the job, in response to...

Dear Friend of TVC: This Thursday, May 1st, the U.S. House of Representatives will be voting on amendments to H.R. 1298, a global AIDS bill that will provide $15 billion dollars to fight AIDS during the next five years. TVC is urging you to contact your U.S. Representative immediately and ask that he or she vote YES on two key amendments: Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA) is offering an amendment that requires that 33% of direct U.S. aid should go to abstinence-until-marriage programs. The nation of Uganda has emphasized abstinence and marital faithfulness and it has actually reduced the spread of...

Two Republican U.S. House members Wednesday demanded that the Bush administration be more aggressive in condemning human rights abuses in Cuba and that it provide information on prisoners to any delegation traveling to the communist nation. The hearing follows the recent convictions of 75 Cuban dissidents, who had been rounded up by Fidel Castro's government, given one-day trials and sentenced anywhere from six to 28 years for treason. Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque recently alleged that the U.S. had paid the dissidents to create unrest. ''These people receive money and live off it while in the service of a...