High Chief Uifa'atali Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen (Aumua Amata), Republican, was elected as American Samoa’s third Member of Congress on November 4, 2014. She is the first woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives from American Samoa, the first Republican woman of Samoan descent in Congress and the most senior Republican elected federal office holder of Asian Pacific heritage.
Congresswoman Amata serves on three committees. On the House Veterans Affairs Committee, she has a senior role as Vice Chairman of the full Committee, as well as Chairman of the Women Veterans Task Force. Within the Committee, she serves on two Subcommittees: The Subcommittee on Health, her top choice of assignments for the Veterans of American Samoa, along with the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, which conducts oversight efforts regarding the VA.
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