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January 5, 2024
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata returned to American Samoa on Thursday’s flight, following taking part in Speaker Mike Johnson’s visit to the border in the southwestern United States.
Issues:Immigration
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January 2, 2024
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is congratulating Hilda Heine upon her election as President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) through the convened Nitijeļā following the November general elections.
Issues:Foreign Affairs
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December 31, 2023
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is highlighting the congressional activities of the bipartisan Pacific Islands Caucus, which she co-chairs. Efforts during 2023 emphasized U.S. commitment in the region, legislation and funding, and Congress’s role in international partnerships in the Pacific.
Issues:Foreign Affairs
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December 23, 2023
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata focused on Veterans throughout 2023, and is providing a year-end summary of the efforts in the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee (HVAC), one of her three Committee assignments in Congress.
Issues:Veterans
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December 22, 2023
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata released a message in celebration of Christmas.
“Have a merry Christmas! ‘A merry heart does good like a medicine,’ (Proverbs 17:22).
Issues:Culture
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December 22, 2023
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming this week’s notice of a grant of $98,418 from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs (OJP) to the American Samoa Criminal Justice Planning Agency for efforts to prevent juvenile delinquency.
Issues:Public Safety
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December 22, 2023
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata on Thursday filed a letter in support of the amici brief (here) in the Supreme Court concerning abusive use of the Antiquities Act, which has been used to create and expand the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument (PRIMNM).
Issues:Fisheries
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December 20, 2023
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is highlighting the past year’s legislation as part of the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC), one of her three committees, and related international work.
Issues:Foreign Affairs
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December 19, 2023
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is reviewing the year’s work in the House Natural Resources Committee, one of her three committees, highlighting the passage of the South Pacific Tuna Treaty Act she sponsored, and her chairmanship of the Committee’s Indo-Pacific Task Force.
Issues:Natural Resources
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December 15, 2023
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming an important legislative step forward for a Wagner-Peyser job training program that, upon final passage, would finally include American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands, a priority that she has worked for alongside Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan of CNMI.