Press Releases

U.S. Rep. Adam Smith today released the following statement regarding the U.S. Air Force's decision to award a long-anticipated contract to build aerial refueling tankers to Northrop Grumman/EADS rather than Boeing:

U.S. Rep. Adam Smith today announced that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved his Global Poverty Act, paving the way for its consideration by the full Senate. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph Biden and Ranking Member Richard Lugar signed on as cosponsors, joining original Senate sponsors Senators Barack Obama, Chuck Hagel, and Maria Cantwell.

U.S. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) today released the following statement following his ‘no' vote on the stimulus package passed by the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday:

"While it is easy to understand the appeal of Congress and the President passing out over $150 Billion to the American people, our economy needs more than another short-term, quick fix approach that could come at the expense of more important long-term, structural, public policy changes.

U.S. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) today released the following statement in response to President Bush's State of the Union address. Smith chairs the terrorism subcommittee on the House Armed Services Committee and is a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

U.S. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) today hailed the President's release of $3.7 billion in additional veterans funding provided by Congress. These funds, combined with others approved last year, total a $6.7 billion increase in 2008, the largest single funding increase in the 77-year history of the Veterans Affairs Department (VA).

U.S. Rep. Adam Smith (WA-09.) voted with a bipartisan majority in favor of the Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) Reauthorization Act. The bill renews and improves SCHIP, providing health care coverage for 11 million children - preserving coverage for the 7 million children currently covered by SCHIP and extends it to 4 million uninsured children who are currently eligible for, but not enrolled in, SCHIP and Medicaid.

U.S. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) led senior congressional staff to visit U.S. Pacific Command, Special Operations Forces and the U.S. State Department in Hawaii, the Philippines and Malaysia. The trip provided a better sense of SOCOM's work to prevent terrorism and reinforced relations with partner governments. Smith visited Iraq and Afghanistan earlier this year; this trip helped provide a picture of SOCOM's work in other countries facing serious threats from infiltration by radical extremist groups affiliated with al-Qaida.