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Pago Pago – Tuesday, Congresswoman Aumua Amata congratulated three local organizations upon federal grant notifications for their youth programs teaching sexual risk avoidance. Together, the three grants total $929,206 for these efforts in American Samoa.
The three grants are as follows:
Washington, D.C. – Wednesday, Congresswoman Aumua Amata highlighted National Small Business Week 2020.
Pago Pago -- Tuesday, Congresswoman Aumua Amata welcomed $391,947 in federal funding through the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to the American Samoa Criminal Justice Planning Agency.
BJA, a component of the Office of Justice Programs (OJP), helps to make American communities safer by strengthening the nation's criminal justice system through grants, training, technical assistance, and policy development services.
Pago Pago – Friday, Congresswoman Aumua Amata released the following statement upon the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
Pago Pago – Friday, Congresswoman Aumua Amata is welcoming Committee passage this week of her bipartisan small business bill, which she introduced the week before with Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pennsylvania). The Parity for HUBZone Appeals Act (H.R. 8229) directs the Small Business Administration (SBA) to authorize the Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) to hear HUBZone appeals.
Pago Pago – Friday, Congresswoman Aumua Amata highlighted President Eisenhower's enduring legacy of promoting local leadership in American Samoa and other Pacific Islands, upon the opening day for the public to view the new Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in D.C.
Pago Pago – Thursday, Congresswoman Aumua Amata is congratulating the American Samoa Department of Health upon a grant notification of $84,498 through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
This discretionary block grant is for Preventive Health and Health Services from HHS's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its Office for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support (OT).
Washington, D.C. – Thursday, Congresswoman Aumua Amata welcomed Committee action late last week and progress on a number of Veterans' bills, including several she has cosponsored.
Pago Pago – Wednesday, Congresswoman Aumua Amata released the following statement welcoming the normalization of relations between Israel and the U.A.E. and Bahrain:
Pago Pago – Tuesday, Congresswoman Aumua Amata welcomed a STOP Violence Against Women federal grant of $617,983 for services in American Samoa.
This federal funding to the American Samoa Criminal Justice Planning Agency is through the U.S. Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), led by Principal Deputy Attorney General Laura L. Rogers. OVW is part of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), under Attorney General William Barr.