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Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee

ASG Treasurer Malemo Tausaga and TBAS Acting President and CEO Owen Peery
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Senators, during the Budget and Appropriations Committee hearing yesterday morning, were told of the $4.4 million that was transferred to the Wells Fargo Bank last year, for which $100,210 is still unaccounted. They were also told of the involvement of the Federal Bureau...
ASG Budget Office director Catherine A. Saelua
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — During a Senate Budget and Appropriations committee hearing yesterday, ASG Budget Office director Catherine A. Saelua said an estimated total of $1.7 million in local revenues will cover ASG salary increases for the last quarter of fiscal year 2021. The increases became...
ASG Treasurer Malemo L. Tausaga
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee has agreed to keep in committee for now, for further review, legislation which seeks to increase the tobacco excise tax by 3 cents — which will help fund LBJ Medical Center operations — and reduce to 1% the current 2% wage...
 Iulogologo Joseph Pereira; board chairman, ASG Treasurer, Uelinitone Tonumaipe’a; and board vice chair, Attorney General Talauega Eleasalo Ale
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee has agreed to request the Lolo Administration to provide proposed legislation to appropriate and approve spending of the more than $50 million in proceeds the government received from the sale of the 2018 bond series, issued...
Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee chairman, Sen. Magalei Logovi’i
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee chairman, Sen. Magalei Logovi’i, announced at last Friday’s Senate session that a hearing set for today, Tuesday, Jan. 22, has been canceled. The two main topics that were to be discussed during the hearing included an...