House rules committee
Washington, D.C. — Uifa’atali Amata spoke Tuesday before the House Committee on Rules in a roundtable on food security to explain American Samoa’s needs regarding food and nutrition. The roundtable was titled, Ending Hunger in America: Examining Hunger in U.S. Territories, and its purpose was to...

![“At the end of the day this [issue] is about the people and making an effort to meet them where they are at. We are all human, and we all need to eat. Thank you again to the Chairman for recognizing that fundamental fact of life and I know we can work to end hunger once and for all,” Amata said during her statement Tuesday before the House committee. She is pictured here in the U.S. Capitol with Chairman of the House Committee on Rules, James P. McGovern. [courtesy photo] Amata and James P. McGovern](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/amata_chairman_mcgovern.jpg?itok=66P9mnj5)