Rep. Smith: Religious freedom belongs to every human being on earth

House Committee on Foreign Affairs · February 4, 2026

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Opening framing: religious freedom as foundational

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Unidentified Speaker opened the hearing by calling religious freedom "America's first freedom," citing its placement in the Bill of Rights and invoking the establishment and free-exercise clauses as protecting conscience rights.

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Opening remarks at a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing framed global religious freedom as a worsening crisis, highlighting repression in China, North Korea, Iran, Nigeria and other countries and citing recent statistics and specific lobbying concerns.

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