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Friday, February 14, 2014 |
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7 Times Obama Ignored the Law to Impose His Executive Will
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:55 AM :: 4190 Views :: National News
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"The biggest problems that we’re facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that’s what I intend to reverse when I’m President of the United States of America." -- Sen Barack Obama, 2008
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Thursday, February 13, 2014 |
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If Only a Snow Shovel Could Dig Us Out of This
By Heritage Foundation @ 6:15 AM :: 4096 Views :: National News
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Obama, after less than five years in office, has already increased the debt limit by more than any other president in U.S. history....
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014 |
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Congress Is Giving Obama a Blank Check
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:30 AM :: 4348 Views :: National News
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Congress got tired of fighting. So now they’re working toward doing away with the debt limit altogether....
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Monday, February 10, 2014 |
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Stuck in Congressional "Groundhog Day"
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:40 PM :: 4307 Views :: National News
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This happens multiple times a year now with Congress on the debt limit, which we just hit again on Saturday....
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Friday, February 7, 2014 |
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You Can't Trust Washington on Immigration
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:45 PM :: 4368 Views :: National News
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President Obama can’t be trusted to enforce U.S. laws—and that makes many lawmakers hesitant to pass new immigration laws....
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Thursday, February 6, 2014 |
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Bam! We're Already Hitting the Debt Ceiling Again
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:14 PM :: 4562 Views :: National News
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By the end of the week, we’ll be hitting the debt ceiling again.....
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Thursday, February 6, 2014 |
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Faleomavaega still missing; American Samoa in legislative Danger
By Selected News Articles @ 5:04 AM :: 8693 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians
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We found no small irony in Gabbard quickly taking the seat Faleomavaega waited years to earn....
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014 |
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Explosive Report: How Obamacare Will Drive People Out of the Workforce
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:05 PM :: 5271 Views :: National News, Health Care
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...the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a new estimate: Obamacare will cause the equivalent of 2.3 million people to stop working.....
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014 |
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Taxpayers Covering Insurance Companies' Losses
By NCPA @ 7:31 PM :: 5291 Views :: National News, Health Care
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The federal government will reimburse insurers for 50 percent of any losses through the "risk corridors" in the Affordable Care Act....
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014 |
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"I Don't Know How President Obama Thinks That He's Helping Us"
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:11 PM :: 5373 Views :: National News, Health Care
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“Was it the biggest mistake of your presidency to tell the nation over and over, ‘If you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance’?”
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Saturday, February 1, 2014 |
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Faleomavaega on Hillary’s Hit List?
By Selected News Articles @ 4:02 PM :: 7931 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians
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Faleomavaega was one of Obama’s earliest backers while then Gov. Togiola Tulafono endorsed then-Sen. Clinton....
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Friday, January 31, 2014 |
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Immigration Plan: Trust Obama?
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:28 AM :: 4680 Views :: National News
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House Republicans say they are ready to move forward with an immigration reform plan....
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014 |
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The President Won't Be Needing You
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:40 AM :: 4932 Views :: National News
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President Obama says this is a “year of action”—and last night he made it very clear whose action he was talking about....
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014 |
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Republican Response to State of the Union
By News Release @ 8:32 PM :: 4946 Views :: National News
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...after five years of promises, what do we have to show for it?....
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014 |
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Full Text: State of the Union Speech 2014
By News Release @ 8:26 PM :: 4967 Views :: National News
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Let’s make this a year of action....
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014 |
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Grassroot Institute: Obama Needs to Respect Constitution
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:54 PM :: 6399 Views :: Akaka Bill, National News
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As every middle school student is taught, the legislative branch makes laws, as the executive branch executes those laws....
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014 |
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SOTU: 7 Things It's Not Too Late For
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:53 AM :: 4558 Views :: National News
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1. Save Americans from skyrocketing energy bills....
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Friday, January 24, 2014 |
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Hawaii's Weak Congressional Delegation Unable to Protect Tsunami Center
By News Release @ 4:57 AM :: 7781 Views :: National News, Congressional Delegation, Labor
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...NOAA has quietly elevated its tsunami warning center in Alaska by relegating its Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii to secondary status....
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Monday, January 20, 2014 |
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Faleomavaega Still Finds Ways to Travel
By Selected News Articles @ 2:55 PM :: 7153 Views :: National News, Ethics, Politicians
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... National Journal has published an article titled “How Lobbyists Still Fly Through Loopholes” and it should not surprise anyone that our South Pacific flyboy is among the Members of Congress featured....
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Monday, January 20, 2014 |
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Progressive Tax Code Not Visible in Tax Expenditures
By NCPA @ 2:46 PM :: 6726 Views :: National News, Tax Credits, Taxes
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...high-income and low-income filers had large tax expenditures, while middle-income taxpayers had smaller expenditures....
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Sunday, January 19, 2014 |
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Bumble Bee CEO to Faleomavaega: You’re a Liar
By Selected News Articles @ 2:00 AM :: 9900 Views :: National News, World News, Labor
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Bumble Bee chief executive Chris Lischewski has called untrue the Delegate’s assertion that Bumble Bee tuna is processed by child labor....
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Friday, January 17, 2014 |
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OMB: $101B Spent on Incorrect Federal Payments Each Year
By NCPA @ 2:34 PM :: 5746 Views :: National News, Health Care
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) paid $33.2 billion as a result of fraud or mistake....
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Friday, January 17, 2014 |
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Why Did the Benghazi Story Change?
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:23 PM :: 8322 Views :: National News, World News, Military
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An explosive intelligence report made public this week revealed that officials knew it was a terrorist attack that killed four Americans on September 11, 2012—and they knew right away....
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Thursday, January 16, 2014 |
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How Congress Gets Away with Spending THIS Much Money
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:26 PM :: 4096 Views :: National News
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The relatively small, district-level pork projects are dwarfed, however, by the entitlement programs that are actually sucking away our money year after year....
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Thursday, January 16, 2014 |
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Omnibus Laden With $744M Federal Pork for Hawaii
By News Release @ 5:18 AM :: 6851 Views :: National News, Hawaii State Government
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... more than $744 million directly for Hawaii projects ....
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Thursday, January 16, 2014 |
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Faleomavaega Video Raises More Questions than Answers
By Selected News Articles @ 5:06 AM :: 6354 Views :: National News, Politicians
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Faleomavaega issued a news release Monday to accompany a copy of a 30-second video Christmas greeting he provided KVZK-TV during the holidays. In his statement he blasted Samoa News for not publishing earlier releases ....
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014 |
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Government Failures Congress Wants You to Fund This Year
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:02 PM :: 4000 Views :: National News
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Here are a few big failures that need to be eliminated or seriously reformed—but instead are getting millions (or billions) of dollars....
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014 |
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Index of Economic Freedom: US Drops to 12th
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:37 PM :: 4396 Views :: National News
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When President Obama took office, the U.S. was ranked 6th. Now it is 12th.
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Monday, January 13, 2014 |
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More Local Media Fraud on Faleomavaega?
By Selected News Articles @ 7:47 PM :: 7640 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Congressional Delegation
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We thought the media had turned the corner on the issue of how to handle the disappearance of Faleomavaega....
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Saturday, January 11, 2014 |
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Washington Correspondent Breaks Faleomavaega Illness Story
By Selected News Articles @ 1:34 PM :: 6573 Views :: National News, Congressional Delegation
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...the first newsperson in Washington, D.C. to address the question of Eni Faleomavaega’s prolonged absence from the Nation’s Capital....
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Friday, January 10, 2014 |
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Tuna War: Congratulations, Samoa News
By Selected News Articles @ 2:06 PM :: 7188 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians
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Yesterday we called on the media to take seriously the tuna content issue being fought out in the Farm Bill in Congress and Samoa News led with a page one story today....
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Friday, January 10, 2014 |
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Members of Congress Won't Read This Bill
By Heritage Foundation @ 9:20 AM :: 4567 Views :: National News
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Any day now, Congress is likely to release the trillion-dollar Trojan horse that is the spending bill for 2014....
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014 |
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Will Minimum Wage Legislation Wreck American Samoa Economy Again?
By Selected News Articles @ 5:30 PM :: 7741 Views :: National News, Congressional Delegation, Labor
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Faleomavaega got caught napping in 2007 and by the time he raced back to Washington in an effort to get us extricated, it was too late....
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014 |
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Report: Am Samoa Governor Prepares to Replace Faleomavaega
By Andrew Walden @ 3:09 PM :: 4725 Views :: National News
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Tuā’au Kereti Māta’utia, Jr., the only candidate to announce for Faleomavaega's seat, is an assistant senior policy adviser to the Governor....
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014 |
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How to Fight Poverty -- and Win
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:37 PM :: 4289 Views :: National News
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President Johnson launched the War on Poverty on Jan. 8, 1964....
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Tuesday, January 7, 2014 |
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Congress Back in Session: Faleomavaega a No Show
By Selected News Articles @ 8:51 PM :: 7059 Views :: National News, Congressional Delegation
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...at last local radio station 93KHJ-FM has published a breakthrough article today on its talanei.com website asking about the delegate’s health....
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Monday, January 6, 2014 |
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The National Debt in One Picture
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:26 PM :: 4123 Views :: National News
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Congress is beginning its new year with a budget deal that busts right through “caps” it was supposed to have on spending....
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Wednesday, January 1, 2014 |
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The Left's Big Issue for 2014
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:42 PM :: 4917 Views :: National News
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The liberal Center for American Progress launched a new center devoted to the subject, and President Obama has been making it a centerpiece of his speeches....
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Monday, December 30, 2013 |
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Booze, Pole Dancing, and Luxurious Hotels: Top 10 Examples of Government Waste in 2013
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:28 PM :: 4673 Views :: National News
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The cupboard is overflowing with liquor, crystal glassware, and more....
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Saturday, December 28, 2013 |
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Samoa News Continues to Deceive Public on Faleomavaega; credibility sinking
By Selected News Articles @ 6:01 PM :: 9950 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Congressional Delegation, Politicians
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We had hoped our common sense prescriptions on how to handle questionable statements emanating from the office of Delegate Faleomavaega would have proved persuasive to Samoa News but apparently not....
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Friday, December 27, 2013 |
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Your Money in Pictures: The Top 5 Charts of 2013
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:55 AM :: 5063 Views :: National News
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What If a Typical Family Spent Money Like the Federal Government? ....
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Thursday, December 26, 2013 |
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Flood Insurance: Sharpening the Government's Blurry Maps
By Selected News Articles @ 1:58 PM :: 8028 Views :: National News, Land Use, Cost of Living
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FEMA's maps govern whether home and business owners are required to buy flood insurance....
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013 |
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8 Americans to Remember This Christmas
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:21 AM :: 5941 Views :: National News
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While most of us are gathering with loved ones, there are Americans being held prisoner in repressive countries around the world....
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Thursday, December 19, 2013 |
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Succession Plan Quietly Underway for Faleomavaega Seat?
By Selected News Articles @ 3:22 AM :: 7992 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians
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...Tuā’au Kereti Māta’utia, Jr., the first candidate to announce for Faleomavaega's seat, is assistant senior policy adviser to the Governor....
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013 |
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Christmas vacation: Obamas get trip to Hawaii, taxpayers get ‘jelly-of-the-month’ club
By Malia Zimmerman @ 2:00 PM :: 5841 Views :: National News
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...The president and his friends pay rent for the 17-day trip, about $25,000 per week. Taxpayers pay for most everything else, about $4 million....
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013 |
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What the Government Got You This Year (in Pictures)
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:32 PM :: 4412 Views :: National News
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Today, the Senate is set to pass the new U.S. budget deal in all its spend-tastic glory....
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013 |
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Samoa Reporter Accidentally Admits Coverup: Missing Congressman Found "Convalescing in Utah"
By Andrew Walden @ 11:25 PM :: 11870 Views :: National News, Ethics, First Amendment, Politicians
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...American Samoa Congressional Delegate Eni Fa'aua'a Hunkin Faleomavaega, Jr has been found...
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Saturday, December 14, 2013 |
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Am Samoa: Talanei Perpetuating Faleomavaega Fraud?
By Selected News Articles @ 8:22 PM :: 11385 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians
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...the public is increasingly asking questions about his lengthy, apparent disappearance from public view....
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Saturday, December 14, 2013 |
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Samoa News finally raises questions about Faleomavaega
By Selected News Articles @ 1:38 AM :: 8141 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians
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Samoa News deserves credit for publishing a story in today's paper about the virtual disappearance of our delegate to Congress....
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Thursday, December 12, 2013 |
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Rep Faleomavaega a No-Show Again
By Selected News Articles @ 5:13 PM :: 7856 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians
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No reasons were given for his absence and he is still listed on the Committee's website as Ranking Member of the subcommittee....
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