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Washington, D.C. – Thursday, May 23, 2019 - Congresswoman Aumua Amata announced she is an original cosponsor of a new bill this week to expand Pacific veterans healthcare, introduced by a bipartisan group of five Representatives led by Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02), with Congresswoman Aumua...
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Aumua Amata welcomed this week’s first look at the House Interior Appropriations bill, which contains her request for a third straight yearly increase for American Samoa, which is over $2.5 million more than the federal budget proposal for American Samoa Government...
Washington, D.C. – This week, Congresswoman Aumua Amata released the following statement highlighting 50 years since the Apollo 10 astronauts came to Pago Pago after a successful mission that was instrumental in the U.S. Space Program’s rapid advances of 1969:
“On May 26th, we mark the 50-year...
Washington, D.C. — Last week, Congresswoman Aumua Amata and the Natural Resources Committee conducted a budget and policy hearing with Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, and she placed a focus on American Samoa’s fishing needs.
In her questioning of the Secretary of the Interior,...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata was humbled to speak in honor of women veterans at a special wreath laying ceremony at the Women In Military Service For America Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery.
“It’s special to be here in this beautiful place, and part of this wonderful wreath...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata is welcoming House passage of the bipartisan Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act, which she cosponsored and supported in a prior Committee vote last week.
On Tuesday, Congresswoman Amata and other Congressional leaders held a press event on the U.S....
Washington, D.C. – Monday, Congresswoman Aumua Amata joined President Trump, Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and other leaders at the White House for the signing of the President’s Executive Order promoting the economic empowerment of Asian and Pacific...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The US House approved last Friday a major disaster relief legislation, the Supplemental Appropriations Act, which includes a provision increasing to $18 million in fiscal year 2019, emergency nutrition assistance for American Samoa following Tropical Storm Gita in...
Washington, DC — Congresswoman Aumua Amata highlighted the Taiwan Relations Act, and gave remarks at a Capitol event celebrating 40 years of this important legislation last week.
“The United States has a robust friendship with Taiwan, and it’s important to all of us in the vast Pacific region,”...
Washington, DC — Congresswoman Aumua Amata is an original co-sponsor of two fishing-related bills examined in a Natural Resources Committee hearing, and co-sponsored another Pacific bipartisan bill on education policy. The hearing of the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife is an important...