Senate Rules Committee
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A Senate bill amending “the selection process of Senators to establish a deadline by which each respective county must determine their candidate no later than the first day of October on each election year, and to mandate that all Senators submit their qualification...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Senate Rules Committee has tabled for further discussion and another future hearing, the Senate Joint Resolution, which seeks to amend the local Constitution by adding two more senatorial seats for Manu’a.
The decision was made by committee chairman Sen. Magalei...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Following a Senate Rules Committee hearing yesterday morning, committee chairman Sen. Magalei Logovi’i declared that an Administration bill seeking to establish by law the Samoan Language and Culture Committee of American Samoa was tabled for future discussion.
The...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Attracting outside investors - who have $1 million or $5 million - to invest in American Samoa, is the goal of an Administration bill that seeks to amend the current application procedures for foreign investment programs in the territory, said then-Attorney General...
![[l-r] ASG Office of Political Status, Constitutional Review and Federal Relations executive director, Tapaau Dr. Daniel Aga; Manu’a District Governor Laolagi F.S. Vaeao; and Western District Governor Fuamatu J.V. Fuamatu appeared recently during a Senate Rules Committee hearing on a House Joint Resolution seeking to increase from two to three, the number of Tualauta faipule in the House. [photo: FS]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ASG%20leaders.jpg?itok=j4AL_WMX "[l-r] ASG Office of Political Status, Constitutional Review and Federal Relations executive director, Tapaau Dr. Daniel Aga; Manu’a District Governor Laolagi F.S. Vaeao; and Western District Governor Fuamatu J.V. Fuamatu appeared recently during a Senate Rules Committee hearing on a House Joint Resolution seeking to increase from two to three, the number of Tualauta faipule in the House. [photo: FS]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Tapaau Dr. Daniel Aga; shared with the Senate Rules Committee a “paper” on three options dealing with reapportionment of the local House of Representatives based on the “One Man One Vote” principle. (See Samoa News Apr. 4 edition for details.)
The committee was holding...