Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is joining her voice with Senator Mike Lee of Utah urging the U.S. Department of Defense to fully support Navy Lieutenant Ridge Alkonis and his family and excuse his absence from duty as unavoidable in line with the applicable U.S. statute...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata attended Tuesday’s ceremony at the United States Capitol Rotunda honoring the Capitol Police and the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, who responded to the Capitol on January 6, 2021. They were awarded the U.S. Congress’s highest...
Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is commemorating National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, which marks 81 years since the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
“President Franklin D. Roosevelt described that Sunday morning surprise attack as a ‘date which will live in infamy.’ The aerial assault...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With big box stores and online giants swooping up customers during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, small businesses are getting on the bandwagon of the shopping holiday introduced in 2010 by American Express — Small Business Saturday.
The shopping holiday gained more...
Washington, D.C. — Uifa’atali Amata welcomes a federal grant of $105,034 from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for maternal and child health services in American Samoa. The grant, awarded by HHS’ Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), will go to the American Samoa...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata welcomes news on Monday that the Supreme Court of the United States did not take up the Fitisemanu case, allowing the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals decision to stand and in essence confirming the prior Tuaua case in the DC Court of Appeals...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is highlighting World Mental Health Day (Oct. 10), and National Depression Screening Day (Oct. 8), which coincide with October as National Depression and Mental Health Screening Month.
While the month of May is Mental Health Awareness Month, October...
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming a response from the Biden Administration stating that the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument (PRIMNM) will not be expanded. In a response letter to the Congresswoman’s earlier inquiry, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata welcomed passage of government funding that secures American Samoa’s federal matching rate for Medicaid. Known as a Continuing Resolution, the legislation passed the House, then attracted bipartisan support in the Senate and was promptly signed into...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is an original cosponsor of a bill introduced Thursday in the House, along with a companion bill in the Senate, to provide local grants that enhance nationwide opportunities for youth to enjoy the outdoors and take part in fishing.
“In American...