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Congresswoman Uifaatali Amata
Thank you for the invitation. It's wonderful to be with you and share a few thoughts on women's empowerment.
The good news is, there's progress, and the less good news is that sometimes it's slow, and some places are a little slower about it! Here in American Samoa we live in a traditionally male...
Congresswoman Uifaatali Amata started the week with several colleagues on an informative Monday visit to the United Nations, New York City, returning to Washington, D.C., in time for votes. Pictured with Amata (in no particular order) are Representatives French Hill, Jared Moskowitz, Rob Menendez,...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata will serve on two House Committees for the 118th Congress — the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Natural Resources Committee.
This will be Congresswoman Amata’s first stint on the Foreign Affairs Committee, marking a change for her fifth term in...
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifaatali Amata is hailing House passage of the Peace Corps Reauthorization Act, H.R. 1456, on which she is one of the seven original co-sponsors. Notably for the Pacific region, the bill includes a requirement for a Peace Corps report to Congress on the presence...
In this photo released by the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from left, U.S. Democratic House members — including Congresswoman Uifaatali Amata (right) pose for a photo after arriving on a U.S. government plane at Songshan airport in Taipei, Taiwan on Sunday, Aug 14, 2022. The delegation of...
Washington D.C. — On Thursday Congresswoman Uifaatali Amata Radewagen received an original Siapo mamanu that was made especially for her by local artists Su'a Uilisone Wilson FItiao and Reggie Meredith Fitiao.
They had showcased the siapo in an art exhibition at the Pearce Green Gallery in New York...
Washington, D.C. —Congresswoman Uifaatali Amata welcomed today the announcement of a grant of $67,148 for the American Samoa Department of Homeland Security. The grant is part of the Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness program, which is awarded by the US Department of Transportation’s...
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Uifaatali Amata is welcoming the announcement of $950,000 in federal funds for programs that seek to identify, assess, and respond to instances of domestic violence and sexual assault. This grant, administered by the US Department of Justice’s Office on Violence...
Washington, D.C. — Legislation directing Medicaid funding to American Samoa for the next eight years was introduced this week. Congresswoman Amata is an original cosponsor of this key bill, which locks in the nation’s best non-emergency federal matching rate, known as FMAP, at 83 percent for the...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) has transmitted $16,718,000 in grant funding to the American Samoa government to support the operations of the hospital, the community college, public schools, and the judicial system in the territory.
“The Office...