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Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata testified Thursday before the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee regarding American Samoa’s Operations funding derived from the Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs (OIA), in which she requested an increase based on inflation...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming notice of nearly $1.5 million in Fiscal Year 2022 in federal funding for transportation.
Specifically, American Samoa will receive $1,488,150 in funding through Federal Transit Administration (FTA) formula programs this year. These...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is drawing attention to Women’s History Month, along with International Women’s Day (March 8), and honoring the women of American Samoa:
“Women’s History Month has begun, and it’s a wonderful chance to express our heartfelt appreciation to all the...
Washington, D.C. — Uifa’atali Amata is an original cosponsor of legislation to formally apologize for the U.S. nuclear legacy in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The Resolution was introduced on March 1, a key anniversary of the Cold War-era nuclear testing program with the most powerful...
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata released the following message in Samoan and in English reacting to news of community transmission of covid-19:
“American Samoa has been deeply blessed to have had so many months without Covid on our shores, particularly during seasons when some of...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is delighted to announce that Michael Sun has been accepted to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, one of the nation’s prestigious Service Academies. He is the first acceptance of this year’s group of student nominees from American Samoa.
“I’m...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata has cosponsored the bipartisan Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture Act (H.R. 3525), introduced by Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY).
This legislation would create a bipartisan commission...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata welcomed the visit to the Pacific of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in his first foray into the region since taking office in 2021.
“Welcome to my home district of American Samoa, strategically important as the only U.S. soil in the...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata welcomed an extension of American Samoa’s key Federal Medicaid Assistance Percentages (FMAP) in short term legislation to fund the federal government through March 11, 2022 in a stopgap measure, which the U.S. House of Representatives passed Tuesday...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata has submitted a public comment to the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) regarding Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) programs that are inaccessible to American Samoa and the other territories under inconsistent federal interpretation of...