emergency nutrition assistance funding
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...

![Congresswoman Amata testifies before the Rules Committee for her Nutrition Assistance Amendment. [courtesy photo] Congresswoman Amata testifies before the Rules Committee](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/congresswoman_amata_speaking_2019.jpg?itok=YGvQNHwU)