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Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming Wednesday’s action in a U.S. Senate legislative hearing that moves forward her House-passed bill for American Samoa, H.R. 6062. This self-determination bill, in fulfillment of a unanimous request by a Fono Resolution and Governor Lemanu P.S.
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata on Tuesday led the Natural Resources Committee’s Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs’ oversight hearing on the implementation of the Compacts of Free Association (COFA) Amendments Act of 2024. Video of the hearing is available HERE.
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 6th, at the White House’s historic Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOC).
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is congratulating American Samoa Community College (ASCC) upon receiving notice of a federal grant of $400,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF). These federal funds are due to the application efforts of State Director Tafaimamao “Tafa” Lefu Tua Tupuola of ASCC’s University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities.
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 is welcoming notice of a grant of $299,145 to the American Samoa Criminal Justice Planning Agency (CJPA) from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs (OJP), and their Office for Victims of Crime.
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 welcoming a federal funding notice of about $95,000 ($94,705) this week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The CDC, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), provided notice of this new discretionary health services grant, a preventive health block grant, for the American Samoa Department of Health.
Washington, D.C. –Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata, Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan (CNMI), and Congressman James Moylan (Guam), are working together in a bipartisan effort to protect critical Medicare funding for dialysis facilities in the Pacific territories.