Fono Passes 60-Days Appropriations Bill
The outcome of a conference committee between the House and Senate today on the administration’s interim appropriations bill is to approve the changes that the House made to the bill. The ...Read more
The outcome of a conference committee between the House and Senate today on the administration’s interim appropriations bill is to approve the changes that the House made to the bill. The ...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 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
In a first for budget hearings, the semi autonomous entities of ASG were let off lightly without much questioning by lawmakers. All of the authorities: the LBJ Hospital, American Samoa Power ...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
Manu’a Senator Logoai Siaki didn’t mince words when he told members of the Coronavirus Task Force they should not allow anyone traveling from Hawaii into the territory but FEMA ...Read more
The Chairman of the Coronavirus Task Force Iulogologo Joseph Pereira acknowledged at a Senate hearing this morning that the hospital does not have enough doctors and nurses, facilities and supplies ...Read more
The checks for lawmakers‘ offices dominated discussion in the Senate yesterday, with two senior senators, Tuaolo Manaia Fruean and Nuanuaolefeagaiga Saoluaga Nua announcing that they are ...Read more
Following questions from the Senate concerning proposed changes to the application process for immigration entry permits, Attorney General Talauega Eleasalo Ale is scheduled to appear before the ...Read more