Maoputasi Senator Tuaolo M Fruean was dead serious when he said that all lawmakers need to be taken off-island for medical check up suspecting that they may be sick from exposure to asbestos in the ...Read more
The Senate has passed a bill that establishes a 1% alternative minimum tax for businesses that over an extended period of time reports a loss. The bill was approved by a unanimous 14-0 ...Read more
Joint hearings for the proposed Fiscal Year 2018 budget for ASG begin tomorrow During the House session today, Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, Rep. Vailiuama Steve Leasiolagi ...Read more
The Chairman of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, Senator Magalei Logovii, has recommended to the Senate president that the House and Senate hold separate hearings for the proposed ...Read more
Is American Samoa heading towards financial suicide? Prominent local businessman, Tom Drabble, believes so and says passing the government’s requested revenue measures is a clear mandate to ...Read more
How will the administration collect the 7% sales tax and what guarantees can it give that the collection will be better than the last time we had a sales tax? The collection method for the sales ...Read more
The Chairman of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee, Senator Magalei Logovi’i, sent the ASG Revenue Task Force back to fix two revenue measures that were the subject of a Committee ...Read more
Alataua Senator Paepae Iosefo Faiai has again raised questions about a Leone High School teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a student. Yesterday Paepae asked the chairman of the ...Read more
The Senate passed in final reading yesterday a bill which clarifies the area where campaign activities are prohibited on Election Day. The approval was unanimous. The bill states that no campaign ...Read more
The chairman and vice chairman of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee are not seeing eye to eye on whether the proposed FY2018 budget for ASG or the administration’s revenue bills ...Read more
