Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, today issued the following statement after news reports indicated that a Russian spy operation targeted coalition troops in Afghanistan, including bounties on American soldiers.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.) released the following statement on D.C. statehood after the House passed H.R. 51, the Washington, D.C. Admissions Act:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.) released the following statement after the House passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act:
SEATTLE, WA - Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.) released the following statement in honor of Juneteenth after attending a rally organized at Judkins Park in Seattle's Central District to discuss police reform and accountability:
"On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers led by Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free - two and a half years after President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, today issued the following statement after the Navy concluded an additional investigation of the COVID-19 outbreak aboard the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.) released the following statement today on the Supreme Court ruling against the Trump administration's challenge to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program:
"The Supreme Court's decision to reject the Trump Administration's effort to rescind the DACA program is a win for DREAMers and all Americans. The President's attempt to immediately end the program was yet another dangerous attack in the Administration's incessant anti-immigration agenda.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.) released the following statement today on President Trump's Executive Order on policing and law enforcement:
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.) released the following statement today after the Supreme Court ruled that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects LGBTQ individuals from workplace discrimination:
"Today, the Supreme Court recognized that discrimination in the workplace based on gender identity or sexual orientation is prohibited under federal civil rights law. This is a historic victory in the fight for equality for LGBTQ people in our country.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.), Strategic Forces Subcommittee Chairman Jim Cooper (D-TN), House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Energy and Water Subcommittee Chairwoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), and Defense Subcommittee Chairman Pete Visclosky (D-IN) sent a letter today to Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette seeking answers on the Trump Administration's recent proposal to resume nuclear testing.