Christopher Bartholomew Smith is a member of the House of Representatives. He is a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Chairman of its Africa Subcommittee. He also serves as Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, and as Co-Chair of the bipartisan House/Senate/White House Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC). In the 119th Congress he was also appointed as a member of the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere.