It was a bitter sweet ending for the final evening of the Holiday Music Festival last night as speakers and groups who performed, along with the emcee for the evening acknowledged this was Governor ...Read more
An orientation session for new members of the House of Representatives was held yesterday in t eh House chamber conducted by the director of the Legislative Reference Bureau Nathaniel Savali and ...Read more
Meetings are already underway in the lead up to January 3rd when a new House of Representatives and Senate are sworn in, the same day that the new governor and lt governor will take their oath of ...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 House of Representatives looks set to approve an interim appropriations bill that’s been requested by the administration to fund ASG operations until a Fiscal Year 2021 budget act is ...Read more
Lawmakers are being called back to session next Monday to review the Fiscal Year 2021 budget. This follows a meeting yesterday between Governor Lolo Moliga, Senate President Gaoteote Palaie Tofau ...Read more
It’s the 15th day of Fiscal Year 2021 and the American Samoa Government remains open while leaders of the executive branch and legislature remain far apart on a budget law. Yesterday the Senate ...Read more
There’s worry in the business community regarding the stalemate in the Fiscal Year 2021 budget and the governor’s announcement that ASG is only allowing personnel cost expenditures. Their ...Read more
There’s an impasse on the FY2021 budget after the Fono yesterday reaffirmed the budget bill that it has already sent to Governor Lolo Moliga and which the governor says he cannot sign. The Senate ...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
