Press Releases
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata gave remarks Thursday at the Interagency Group on Insular Affairs (IGIA), a special mid-year session hosted by the Department of the Interior (DOI) at their DC headquarters, and focused her remarks on several issues that are critical to the local economy of American Samoa, and called for full inclusion in federal programs like SSI and removing the Medicaid cap completely.
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is highlighting a successful congressional effort that flagged problems with mail delivery to U.S. territories and Hawai‘i, then secured a response from the United States Postal Service (USPS) to undertake corrective actions that “will improve the timely and accurate processing and transportation of mail that is designed for deliver in areas outside the 48 contiguous states.”
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming bipartisan House passage of a bill she cosponsored, the PARTNER Act, officially the Providing Appropriate Recognition and Treatment to Enhance Relations Act. The bill, passed by voice vote, specifically extends diplomatic privileges to the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) as well as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and others, bolstering U.S. efforts in the Indo-Pacific.
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is congratulating the Samoan Congregation Church, Joint Base Henderson Hall-Myer, which is celebrating 55 years at this location.
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming a grant from the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Office of Insular Affairs (OIA), as also sent to Governor Pulaali’i Nikolao Pula, advising of $250,000 to the American Samoa Government (ASG) Department of Treasury through the OIA Technical Assistance Program.
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Amata Coleman Radewagen, vice chairman of both the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific and the Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs, the two main congressional committees with legislative responsibility regarding the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), expressed “shock and dismay” when told of the devastating fire at the Nitijela building in Majuro yesterday.
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming recent House Veterans’ Affairs Committee (HVAC) passage of a bill she cosponsored to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to assign physicians of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to temporarily serve as traveling physicians in the territories, strengthening healthcare services to veterans in the islands.
Washington, D.C. –Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata welcomed announcement of two grants, each $300,000, for the airports at Ofu and Fitiuta, Ta'u, from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), part of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming notice this week of $617,640 in federal funds for the STOP (Services, Training, Officers, Prosecutors) Violence Against Women Formula Grant Program.
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is highlighting the announcement of an investment from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) from congressionally authorized and appropriated funding that will benefit families and communities throughout American Samoa.