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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....

...Tuā’au Kereti Māta’utia, Jr., the first candidate to announce for Faleomavaega's seat, is assistant senior policy adviser to the Governor....

...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....

Today, the Senate is set to pass the new U.S. budget deal in all its spend-tastic glory....

...American Samoa Congressional Delegate Eni Fa'aua'a Hunkin Faleomavaega, Jr has been found...

...the public is increasingly asking questions about his lengthy, apparent disappearance from public view....

Samoa News deserves credit for publishing a story in today's paper about the virtual disappearance of our delegate to Congress....

No reasons were given for his absence and he is still listed on the Committee's website as Ranking Member of the subcommittee....

Some Members of Congress are using this logic in their latest budget proposal.... 

Many had high hopes that the first budget conference in four years would make a substantial down payment toward fixing the U.S. spending and debt crisis.....

We will be watching via internet to see if he shows up at his subcommittee session tomorrow....

...there has been a virtual blackout of news coverage....

This week marked the 80th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition.....

The law is a complicated one, made so in an effort to get around the Supreme Court’s past rulings that states could not require sales tax collection by a company if that company is not physically present in the state....

...members of the budget conference committee are considering several options that could increase spending by up to an additional $100 billion....

It has been almost a month now since Delegate Faleomavaega was stricken with some unrevealed ailment after arriving on an evening flight from Honolulu to Pago Pago....

"...my colleagues propose this rule change because they can get away with it...." -- Sen Barack Obama

"Everyone in this chamber knows that if the majority chooses to end the filibuster—if they choose to change the rules and put an end to democratic debate—then the fighting and the bitterness and the gridlock will only get worse." -- Sen Barack Obama, 2005

In the next 31 days—starting today—the budget conference committee will try to accomplish something Congress has failed to do for the past four years....

U.S. candy makers are expanding production in other countries as federal price supports and a global glut of the sweet stuff give an ever-greater advantage to foreign rivals....

And the money didn't go to Sandwich Isles Communications!

Obama is now back to beating the broken drum on amnesty....

President Obama boasted last week that he had signed legislation to lift “the twin threats” to our economy....

Visitors spend about $76 million a day in communities near national parks, the National Park Service estimated....

Now that the government is whirring again, President Obama has identified three priorities for the country....

...these soldiers, who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country, will return home this week to a nation that initially refused to pay their families the military death benefit....

There are about 34,000 civilian federal jobs in Hawaii, a fraction of which were deemed essential....

The House has passed a variety of bills that would have reopened portions of the federal government, but the Senate has rejected them....

President Obama is needlessly scaring seniors by suggesting that their Social Security benefit checks may not arrive....

Grassroot Institute has been spreading the word about the results of the Reason Foundation’s poll....

...the furor over Washington furloughs will only take you so far in the rest of America....

The House has continually been reaching out to the Senate Democrats and President Obama to pass a resolution to ensure everyone receives equal treatment....

Government funding isn’t the issue. It’s Obamacare....

Schatz’s own office has indicated that 25,000 federal workers throughout the state would be left without pay....

Reps Hanabusa and Gabbard voted against funding the Federal Government....

Congress has added $43,000 in debt for every American household in just the last four years....

... rather than risk Warren Buffett’s taxpayer-funded benefits decreasing, politicians pretend America’s national budget can handle all the extensive promises they’ve made ....

The Congressional Budget Office just dropped a budget update on Washington, and it’s not good. The U.S. government is spending recklessly—and Obamacare is adding fuel to the fire....

Today, the Constitution turns 226 years old. Let’s not forget it states that the President “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”....

At 10:28 a.m., FDNY lieutenant Mickey Kross was in the third-floor stairwell of the north tower when he heard a “tremendous roar,” and the building began to crumble....

Kia’aina would lead the Department’s efforts to coordinate federal policy for Guam....

Congress gets back to its regularly scheduled work on Monday....

Congress hasn’t passed immigration legislation, but that hasn’t stopped President Obama....

Esther Kiaaina may be the next Assistant Secretary of Interior for Insular Affairs....