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Amata Welcomes $11,500 in Mental Health Services Health Block Grant
August 6, 2024
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Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming notice on Monday of a federal grant of $11,553 for mental health services in American Samoa through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Issues:Healthcare
Amata Welcomes $780,000 in Three OIA Grants for the Maintenance Assistance Program
August 5, 2024
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Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata welcomes a total of $780,211.95 awarded to the American Samoa Government in fiscal year 2024 through the Office of Insular Affairs Maintenance Assistance Program (MAP). The award was notified by Assistant Secretary Carmen Cantor in a letter to Governor Lemanu P.S.

Issues:Budget
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Amata Congratulates Col. Le’iato on Command of the U.S. Army Finance Corps
August 1, 2024
Press Release
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is congratulating Colonel Robert L. Le’iato, now the 43rd Commandant of the U.S. Army Finance and Comptroller School, and Commander of the U.S. Army Finance Corps. Congresswoman Amata’s Chief of Staff, Col. Leafaina Tavai, U.S. Army (Ret.), attended his command ceremony on Tuesday at Fort Jackson, South Carolina.
Issues:Military
Amata Supports Congressional Task Force Examining Presidential Security
July 29, 2024
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Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is highly supportive of the new bipartisan Task Force appointed to investigate the attempted assassination of former President Trump and all related security and procedural questions. The Task Force announced Monday follows bipartisan House passage of H. Res. 1367, passed by a vote of 416-0 on July 24th.
Issues:Congress
Amata Welcomes House Passage of Interior Appropriations
July 26, 2024
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Maintains Operations Funds with $3 Million for ASCC Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming this week’s House passage of the Department of the Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2025, H.R. 8998, that funds American Samoa’s DOI Operations fund, and all federal interior and insular grants and services, as well as local EPA grants and the work of EPA Region 9.
Issues:Interior
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Amata Attends Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Address to Congress
July 24, 2024
Press Release
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata attended Prime Minister Netanyahu’s address to Congress on July 24th. “Just a few years ago we celebrated the peaceful advancements of the Abraham Accords, and last year, we celebrated with Israel for their 75th anniversary. Then the world changed with the terrible shock of the horrific attack on October 7th.
Issues:Congress
Amata Welcomes $5.7 Million in Grants for Head Start and Hospital
July 12, 2024
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Washington, D.C. –Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming notice on Friday of two discretionary federal grants for childhood education/social services and hospital preparedness in American Samoa, both through the U.S.

Issues:Healthcare
Amata Supports Food for Peace Resolution on Effort’s 70th Anniversary
July 11, 2024
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Washington, D.C. –Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata cosponsored a bipartisan Resolution on Wednesday, the 70th anniversary of the program, that supports renewal of Food for Peace in the upcoming Farm Bill.

Issues:Foreign Affairs
Amata Welcomes $790,056 CDC Grant for Preventative Efforts
July 10, 2024
Press Release
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming a federal funding notice of $790,056 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Prevention and Control in American Samoa. “Thank you especially to Jacki Tulafono for her dedicated work on this grant to enhance our capacity to prevent and control infectious diseases in American Samoa,” said Aumua Amata. “These funds cover one year of a five-year project to effectively respond to emerging health threats and protect our community. Congratulations to Health Director Motusa Nua and all the hardworking health professionals that serve our community.”
Issues:Healthcare
Amata Honors the Life of Senator Inhofe
July 10, 2024
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Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is honoring the life of Senator James Inhofe, who retired from the U.S. Senate in January 2023. “Senator Jim Inhofe was Oklahoma’s longest-serving senator, in the Senate more than 27 years, after he was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for four terms. Before that he was Mayor of Tulsa, and a state legislator totaling some 56 years of public service, after time in the U.S. Army. I knew him already in the 1990s, as I worked for Congressman J.C. Watts, his colleague from the Oklahoma congressional delegation,” said Aumua Amata. “He came through American Samoa with a congressional delegation a few years ago, and I spoke to him there and after he came back to Washington, D.C. at the time.”
Issues:Congress

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