Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representative Adam Smith (D-Wash.) released the following statement after House passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Enhancement Act:
"The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Enhancement Act passed in the House today strengthens the Affordable Care Act and stands in sharp contrast to the actions of the Trump Administration. Just last week, President Trump asked the Supreme Court to gut the protections and benefits of the Affordable Care Act, putting millions of Americans at risk in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.