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
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Sen Magalei Unhappy with Treasurer’s Statements
The Chairman of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, Senator Magalei Logovii, didn’t mince words in his reaction to a statement by Treasurer Ueligitone Tonumaipe’a yesterday that the ...Read more
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
Bill Clears House, Senate Calls in Treasurer
By a vote of 13-0, the House of Representatives approved in final reading this morning the administration’s interim appropriations bill intended to avert a government shutdown. The vote came ...Read more
Funding Source for Interim Budget Bill Questioned
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
Senate Decides to “Sleep” on Interim Budget Bill
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
Fono Reaffirms FY2021 Budget Bill
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
DHR Director Unhappy with Senator’s Remarks
Director of Human Resources Mrs Eseneiaso Liu has registered her disappointment with the chairmen of the joint budget committees of the Fono over what she calls “libelous and derogatory ...Read more
Fono Reduces Executive Branch Budget by $7 Million
The Fono budget hearings have ended with the joint committees approving a reduction to the Governor’s proposed Fiscal Year 2021 budget from $465.9 million to $459.4 million. Chairman Senator ...Read more
Light Review of FY2021 Budgets for Authorities
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
