Amata Radewagen: “Why would the federal government prohibit sustainable U.S. fishing in its own waters?”

The Compacts of Free Association are vital to that endeavor and the broader U.S.-China competition.

That one sentence add-on buried in the 1983 territorial spending bill takes back the fruits of limited self-determination.

If I can have assurance that we can verify that H.R. 6062, this legislation, will acknowledge the rights of every American Samoan Native, I am ready to embrace you and support this legislation.

Amid the growing threat from the People's Republic of China, or PRC, we must preserve 120 years of American leadership and national success in the Pacific.