Member of Congress · 119th Congress
Christopher H. Smith
Christopher Smith is a Republican U.S. representative from New Jersey, in Congress since 1981, who voted with most Republicans on 96% of the 119th Congress’s yes/no votes and has had 15 bills become law since 2013.
How we count: “Broke with party” is a yes/no roll call where the member voted against most of their own party on that vote (party as recorded; even splits not counted). “Pork: own share” splits each earmark shared by several members evenly among them.
5 most recent votes
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass — Retire through Ownership ActSep 16, 2026 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended — Water Resources Development Act of 2026Sep 16, 2026 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended — Ratepayer Protection ActSep 16, 2026 · Passed
- YeaOn Passage — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule issued by the Environmental Protection…Sep 16, 2026 · Passed
- YeaOn Passage — PROOF ActSep 16, 2026 · Passed
5 most recent bills
- H.R. 10897 To enhance passenger and driver safety on transportation network company platforms through enhanced digital verification systems, to implement driver…Oct 22, 2026 · Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and the Budget, for a period to be…
- H.R. 1744 United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Reauthorization Act of 2026Oct 14, 2026 · Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- H.Res. 1584 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…Sep 24, 2026 · Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
- H.R. 10461 Somaliland Travel and Investment ActSep 16, 2026 · Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
- H.R. 10406 Jimmy Lai Hong Kong Political Prisoner Accountability Act of 2026Sep 16, 2026 · Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, Financial Services, and Ways and Means, for a period to be…
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 1058 (116th) Autism CARES Act of 2019Became law
- H.R. 1150 (114th) Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom ActBecame law
- H.R. 972 (109th) Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005Became law
- H.R. 4631 (113th) Autism CARES Act of 2014Became law
- H.R. 3818 (108th) Microenterprise Results and Accountability Act of 2004Became law
- H.R. 192 (108th) To amend the Microenterprise for Self-Reliance Act of 2000 and the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase assistance for the poorest people in developing…Became law
- H.R. 2017 (109th) Torture Victims Relief Reauthorization Act of 2005Became law
- H.R. 7213 (118th) Autism CARES Act of 2024Became law
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Committees
- House Committee on Foreign AffairsAfrica, Western Hemisphere
Elections Rep. Smith has won
Rep. Smith has won 23 U.S. House elections (1980–2024). Of the contested races, margins ran from 6.2 to 41.5 points.
Full election history for this seat →
Source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. House V15 / U.S. Senate V8 (CC0), retrieved 2026-10-18; winners matched to member records by seat and term. Results run through the 2024 elections; nothing from 2026 is shown until it is certified. A margin is a fact about one election, never a score of how well a member represents anyone, and PORKER does not rank members by it.
How has New Jersey’s 4th district done while Rep. Smith served?
2012 to 2021 in NJ-4: typical household income was up 7% after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was up 1.9 points, and the share of workers looking for a job was down 1.5 points.
Each mini chart has its own scale, fitted to its lines (it does not start at zero), so compare the numbers, not the heights. Teal = district, oxblood = state, grey = U.S.
While they served, not because of them. This shows what happened in New Jersey’s 4th district during Smith’s time representing it (1981 to now). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.
Only one set of district lines is shown. NJ-4 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022, and a redrawn district is a different place. So this card shows only the longest stretch on the same lines during the term, 2012 to 2021 (no 2020 yearly estimate), not the full 1981 to now.
Local offices
Offices in the district or state, as listed in a public-domain community file. The Washington office is in the Contact section above.
- Middletown office1715 Highway 35 North, Suite 303, Middletown, NJ 07748
Phone 732-780-3035 - Toms River office33 Washington Street, P.O. Box 728, Toms River, NJ 08754
Phone 732-504-0567 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)
Evidence
- File
- legislators-district-offices-2026-09-24-8d698e92.json, entries S000522-middletown, S000522-toms_river (2 offices)
- Published at
- https://unitedstates.github.io/congress-legislators/legislators-district-offices.json
- File date
- September 24, 2026 (server “last modified”)
- Retrieved by PORKER
- October 16, 2026
- File SHA-256
8d698e92f8ebae3bdd387bfef239584164160e59d444ba1cbff46f32aa450f59- Licence
- CC0 1.0 (public domain)
Read this first. This list is kept up by volunteers and may be out of date. Confirm hours and addresses on the member’s official site, chrissmith.house.gov.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
119th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 62 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 62 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 48 | See the 48 → |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 3 | See the 3 → |
| With a committee report listed | 2 | See the 2 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 119th Congress, read from the stored Congress.gov bill records
- Fields
- cboCostEstimates, committeeReports, constitutionalAuthorityStatementText, notes
- PORKER copy refreshed
- October 26, 2026 (nightly)
Read this first. These are counts of records Congress.gov lists. Many bills never get a CBO estimate or a report, so a zero is not a mark against a member. We never show this as a score.
Data as of Oct 26, 2026 (member stats) · latest recorded House vote Sep 16, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.