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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

Obama, after less than five years in office, has already increased the debt limit by more than any other president in U.S. history....

Congress got tired of fighting. So now they’re working toward doing away with the debt limit altogether....

This happens multiple times a year now with Congress on the debt limit, which we just hit again on Saturday....

President Obama can’t be trusted to enforce U.S. laws—and that makes many lawmakers hesitant to pass new immigration laws....

By the end of the week, we’ll be hitting the debt ceiling again.....

We found no small irony in Gabbard quickly taking the seat Faleomavaega waited years to earn....

...the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a new estimate: Obamacare will cause the equivalent of 2.3 million people to stop working.....

The federal government will reimburse insurers for 50 percent of any losses through the "risk corridors" in the Affordable Care Act....

Faleomavaega was one of Obama’s earliest backers while then Gov. Togiola Tulafono endorsed then-Sen. Clinton....

House Republicans say they are ready to move forward with an immigration reform plan....

President Obama says this is a “year of action”—and last night he made it very clear whose action he was talking about....

...after five years of promises, what do we have to show for it?....

Let’s make this a year of action....

As every middle school student is taught, the legislative branch makes laws, as the executive branch executes those laws....

...NOAA has quietly elevated its tsunami warning center in Alaska by relegating its Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii to secondary status....

... 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....

...high-income and low-income filers had large tax expenditures, while middle-income taxpayers had smaller expenditures....

Bumble Bee chief executive Chris Lischewski has called untrue the Delegate’s assertion that Bumble Bee tuna is processed by child labor....

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) paid $33.2 billion as a result of fraud or mistake....

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....

The relatively small, district-level pork projects are dwarfed, however, by the entitlement programs that are actually sucking away our money year after year....

... more than $744 million directly for Hawaii projects ....

Here are a few big failures that need to be eliminated or seriously reformed—but instead are getting millions (or billions) of dollars....

We thought the media had turned the corner on the issue of how to handle the disappearance of Faleomavaega....

...the first newsperson in Washington, D.C. to address the question of Eni Faleomavaega’s prolonged absence from the Nation’s Capital....

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....

Any day now, Congress is likely to release the trillion-dollar Trojan horse that is the spending bill for 2014....

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....

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

President Johnson launched the War on Poverty on Jan. 8, 1964....

...at last local radio station 93KHJ-FM has published a breakthrough article today on its talanei.com website asking about the delegate’s health....

Congress is beginning its new year with a budget deal that busts right through “caps” it was supposed to have on spending....

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....

The cupboard is overflowing with liquor, crystal glassware, and more....

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....

What If a Typical Family Spent Money Like the Federal Government? ....

FEMA's maps govern whether home and business owners are required to buy flood insurance....

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....