Senate Delays Vote on Interim Budget Bill
The first week of the extended Special session of the Fono ended today. The Senate was scheduled to take a final vote on the House version of the administration’s interim appropriations bill ...Read more
The first week of the extended Special session of the Fono ended today. The Senate was scheduled to take a final vote on the House version of the administration’s interim appropriations bill ...Read more
The was some progress in the Senate yesterday on the interim appropriations bill to fund ASG which is now in its third week of Fiscal Year 2021 without an approved annual budget. Governor Lolo ...Read more
The House has now passed in second reading the administration’s interim appropriations bill to avert a shutdown of ASG, while the Senate has decided to sleep on the bill again. Representatives ...Read more
The House and Senate reconvened this morning to discuss the Fiscal Year 2021 budget for ASG and on the agenda was an administration bill to provide temporary funding to keep the government opened ...Read more
The Fono is not making any changes to the fiscal year 2021 budget bill that it has already passed. Meeting in a joint session this morning, lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to let stand the budget ...Read more
Senators on Friday approved changes that the House made to the bill that would allow voters stranded off island due to the COVID-19 pandemic to vote in the November 3rd elections. Earlier Senators ...Read more
Director of Education Dr Ruth Matagi-Tofiga was in the hot seat today when she was appeared before the joint budget hearings to testify on her department’s proposed budget for Fiscal Year ...Read more
Amendments made by the House to a senate bill that would allow voters stranded off island due to the Covid-19 pandemic, to cast ballots in the November 3 general elections were rejected by Senators ...Read more
The conversion of a former contract employee of the Territorial Energy Office to career service status drew questions from senators and representatives at the second day of hearings on the proposed ...Read more
Statements made in the House and Senate today called attention to the increasing number of young lives lost because of suicide. Rep Vesi Fautanu Jr and Senator Faamausili Mau Mau Jr said it ...Read more