Foreign Affairs

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata’s Chief of Staff Leafaina “Ina” Tavai represented her in attending the first White House Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) Convening, Friday, September 6^th, at the White House’s historic Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOC).

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is an original cosponsor of legislation to apologize for the U.S. nuclear legacy in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The Resolution, introduced Friday, is sponsored by Congresswoman Katie Porter (D-California) with cosponsor Congresswoman Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen (R-American Samoa).

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata will be back in Washington, D.C., for a three-week September stretch of key legislative efforts, especially the need to extend appropriations beyond the upcoming end of the fiscal year, and full House consideration of bills that Amata sponsored or cosponsored.

Washington, D.C. –Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is highlighting a training, mentoring, and business matchmaking opportunity for Pacific women entrepreneurs from neighboring Pacific Islands countries.

Washington, D.C. –Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata cosponsored a bipartisan Resolution on Wednesday, the 70^th anniversary of the program, that supports renewal of Food for Peace in the upcoming Farm Bill.

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata spoke to the Filipino Community in American Samoa at the invite of President Perpetua “Nemia” Aguirre at Lee Auditorium on June 15 in celebration of the 126^th Philippines Independence Day (officially June 12). The celebration marks hard-won independence from Spain, a longtime world power of that era.

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata took part last week in a roundtable with 23 rising leaders representing 18 countries from the Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders.