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Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata, who is Vice Chairman of the Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) within the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC), chaired the closing portion of Wednesday’s hearing titled, “Lives, Not Leverage: The Long Arm of China and North Korea’s Repression.” Chairwoman Young Kim (R-CA) opened the hearing. Following the statements of the witnesses and the Chairwoman’s questions, Vice Chairman Amata served in the chair to complete the hearing.
Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming notice from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that the American Samoa Department of Health has been awarded $324,271 through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to support health data collection and advance health equity in the territory.
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming closure for 11 U.S. Nationals in Whittier, Alaska, who had been facing changes regarding past votes in a local election in Alaska. Alaska prosecutors decided to drop the charges against them, after nearly three years of legal defense resulting from their votes.
“I’m relieved for our people in Alaska and glad to hear their case is over,” said Congresswoman Amata.
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is highlighting the 79th birthday of the United States Air Force (USAF), marking the official founding as a Service on September 18th, 1947, when President Harry Truman signed the congressional act that established the Air Force.
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata attended a special meeting Saturday for the families of U.S. personnel missing from the Vietnam War, Cold War, Korean War, and World War II. The Family Member Update, held in Dover, Delaware, by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), included over 400 Gold Star family members.
Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata congratulates Dr. Mata’uitafā Temukisa Solomona Fai’ai, Ph.D., M.P.H., on earning her doctorate in Chronic Disease Epidemiology from Yale University. Her doctoral research focused on cardiometabolic health among adolescents in American Samoa.
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming notice from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that the American Samoa Department of Health (ASDOH) has been awarded a $255,100 federal grant through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to strengthen vaccine-preventable disease prevention and response efforts in American Samoa.
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is commemorating the 25th anniversary of September 11, 2001, in memory of the lost lives and heroic stories that are now part of our national history.
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata released the following for Labor Day 2026:
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming notice from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the American Samoa Department of Health (ASDOH) of $87,718 through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a discretionary preventive health and health services block grant for one year.
The award is through CDC’s National Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Public Health Infrastructure and Workforce.