National News

... 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....

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....