Island US lawmakers will try again this month to lift the Medicaid funding cap for the territories, after earlier attempts failed with the demise of GOP bills to end Obamacare. KHJ News ...Read more
Some campaign chests are heavier than others. The Federal Elections Commission is out with candidates’ final campaign finance filings before next Tuesday’s election. KHJ News Washington ...Read more
The modern age has come to policing illegal fishing…a battle that’s pitched federal officials, lawmakers from American Samoa, and the other Pacific territories against those illegally depleting ...Read more
The US Senate has passed territories legislation that would improve air service within American Samoa. KHJ News Washington Correspondent Matt Kaye has the full details: The Senate passed by ...Read more
The US House has approved by voice vote Congresswoman Aumua Amata Radewagen’s “Ensuring Access to Pacific Fisheries Act,” giving American Samoa a greater say in fishery management and access ...Read more
American Samoa has been trying for decades to be removed from the UN list of Non-Self Governing Territories…but as KHJ News Washington Correspondent Matt Kaye reports, attitudes on the UN panel ...Read more
Congressional Republicans are keeping American Samoa and the other outlying territories out of a time-sensitive bill to help save Puerto Rico from further default on its debt obligations. But KHJ ...Read more
Territorial delegates to Congress including our own Congresswoman Aumua Amata are expected to attempt an amendment to the Puerto Rico debt bill, if American Samoa and the other territories are ...Read more
Congresswoman Aumua Amata Radewagen told a House panel, American Samoa deserves a‘say’ in Western Pacific resource management decisions under new treaty conventions…and her “Ensuring ...Read more
Congresswoman Aumua Amata has introduced long-awaited legislation to improve air passenger service between Tutuila and the remote islands of the Manu’a group. KHJ News Washington Correspondent ...Read more
