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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.

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming a federal funding grant of $67,148 from the Department of Transportation (DOT) through the FY24 Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness Grant for the American Samoa Department of Homeland Security.

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming notice of $256,557 in federal funds for American Samoa's criminal justice system from the Office on Violence Against Women, part of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Washington, D.C. –Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is highlighting a training, mentoring, and business matchmaking opportunity for Pacific women entrepreneurs from neighboring Pacific Islands countries.

Washington, D.C. –Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata welcomed announcement of a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grant for the airport at Fitiuta, Ta'u, designated to the runway lighting project. This grant of $755,000 is in support of airport infrastructure projects in the Airport Improvement Program (AIP). 

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata welcomed a federal funding notice of $295,000 last week from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for Preventing Maternal Mortality.