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PALIKIR, POHNPEI. May 27, 2013. – On May 23, 2013, the 18th Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia on the 13th day of its First Regular Session passed Congressional Bill 18-01 D1 approving a supplemental budget request of $707,338 for fiscal year 2013. Of the total appropriation, $72,000 of this supplemental budget appropriation goes […]

PALIKIR, POHNPEI. May 11, 2013 – The Opening Session of the new Eighteenth Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia convened in Palikir this morning and reshuffled the leadership of the national legislative body. Senator Dohsis Halbert of Pohnpei has been seated as the Body’s new Speaker with Senator Paliknoa K. Welly of Kosrae as the

PALIKIR, POHNPEI. April 24, 2013 – The Fifth Special Session of the Seventeenth Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia has delayed the “sunset clause” of April 19 2013, in the Revenue Administration Act (RAA) of 2012 for another three months. President Manny Mori had called for the Fifth Special Session to specifically repeal the sunset

PALIKIR, POHNPEI. April 12, 2013 – The Fifth Special Session of the Seventeenth Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia is scheduled to convene on April 15 2013, in Palikir at 10am in the Congress Chamber to address a looming deadline in the tax Act of 2012. Speaker Isaac V. Figir had called for a Special

PALIKIR, POHNPEI. March 13, 2013.  The Office of the National Elections Director today certified official results of the Congressional General Elections held on March 5, 2013 to seat the two-year members of the upcoming Eighteenth Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia. National Election Director Albert T. Welly declared the winning national candidates in the States

PALIKIR, POHNPEI – January 12, 2013.  The Sixth Regular session of the Seventeenth Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia convened in Palikir on Monday – January 7, 2013 to wrap up all measures outstanding and pending before the Body during the last Regular Session of the current Congress. With the formalities of an opening session

PALIKIR, POHNPEI.  January 4, 2013 – Speaker Isaac V. Figir has notified the President that the Sixth Regular Session of the Seventeenth Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia will convene in Palikir at 10am on Monday January 7, 2013, three days early. The Speaker’s letter of December 28th informed President Immanuel ‘Manny’ Mori that the

PALIKIR, POHNPEI.  November 28, 2012 – The Office of the National Elections Director has notified Speaker Isaac V. Figir of the Seventeenth Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia that 21 candidates will be on the ballots for the National General Elections of March 5, 2013. National Elections Director Albert T. Welly transmitted a listing of

PALIKIR, POHNPEI.  October 1, 2012 – The Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia today mourn the passing of late Senator Claude H. Phillip who died on September 30, 2012, in the State of Kosrae after a long period of extended illness. He was 64. Congressional Resolution 17-183, adopted today, conveys condolences from Members who mourn

PALIKIR, POHNPEI. September 26, 2012 – The Seventeenth Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia this morning passed Congressional Act for a national government budget of $40,491,992 for the fiscal year 2013. Chairman Dohsis Halbert, of the Congressional Standing Committee on Ways and Means, reported to Congress this morning that after consolidation of the proposed national