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RepublicanChristopher H. Smith
U.S. Representative · New Jersey
New Jersey's 4th district
U.S. Representative from New Jersey
0 tracked promises
How they won their seat
Christopher H. Smith won the 2024 U.S. House election in New Jersey (District 4) with 67.4% of the vote (265,652 votes).
- Christopher H. Smith · Republican67.4%265,652
- Matthew Jenkins · Democrat31.7%124,803
- 2 Other Candidates1%3,773
Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.
Inferred legislative agendas
Christopher H. Smith's record includes sponsored bills related to foreign affairs, particularly concerning human rights and religious freedom, as evidenced by bills such as the 'Uyghur Genocide Accountability and Sanctions Act of 2025' and the 'Nigeria Religious Freedom and Accountability Act of 2026'. Additionally, he has sponsored legislation related to health issues, including the 'Preventing Stomach Cancer in Our Nation’s Heroes Act' and Lyme disease awareness. Focus areas (from the record): Foreign Affairs · Human Rights · Religious Freedom · Health Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against the inferred activity patterns. What this can't tell you: The effectiveness of the legislation sponsored or voted on; Any unlogged work or activities outside of the official record. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Christopher H. Smith has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.
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Activity in office
What Christopher H. Smith has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score.
- Bills sponsored
- 19
Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · source: Voteview.
Bills sponsored over time
Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.
Bill success rate
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$144K20%
- Large individual (itemized)$316K44%
- PAC / committee$266K37%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Foreign AffairsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Chair, House Committee on Foreign Affairs — AfricaOn record since Jan 2025Chair
- Member, House Committee on Foreign Affairs — Western HemisphereOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
866 sponsored bills · finance on fileFacts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.
FEC 2026 cycle — raised $526,048, spent $443,489, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HRES 1400: 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. ↗Jun 30, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9531: Preventing Stomach Cancer in Our Nation’s Heroes Act ↗Jun 29, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1382: 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. ↗Jun 24, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9202: Walter Patterson Justice and Extradition Act ↗Jun 8, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9085: Tibet Atrocities Determination Act ↗Jun 2, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1279: Supporting the designation of the month of May as "Lyme and Tick-borne Disease Awareness Month". ↗May 13, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1259: Expressing 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 Jimmy Lai detained by the People’s Republic of China during future engagements with Chinese President Xi Jinping. ↗May 7, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1188: Expressing support for the work of open water lifeguards as first responders and emergency response providers. ↗Apr 20, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8354: Securing Local Communities Input in Broadband Development Act ↗Apr 16, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7967: Heidi’s Law ↗Mar 17, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7807: Honduras Expropriation Accountability Act ↗Mar 4, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7482: LymeX Authorization Act ↗Feb 11, 2026
Showing the 12 most recent of 866 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 469
- Nay
- 134
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 6
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Nay
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR1181Yea
- HR1181Nay
- HR139Nay
- HRES1423Yea
- HRES1423Yea
- HR8897Yea
- HR3106Yea
- HRES1399Yea
- HCONRES108Nay
- HRES1398Yea
- HRES1398Yea
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Stated positions
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Disclosure
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No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.
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