This Week In Congress

PALIKIR, POHNPEI – January 23, 2018.   Chairman David W. Panuelo, on behalf of Speaker Wesley W. Simina, met with and welcomed to the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia Deputy Mission Director Clay Epperson of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Deputy Director Epperson was in Chuuk to attend a close-out ceremony on […]

HANOI, VIETNAM – Vice Speaker Esmond B. Moses headed a delegation from the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia to the 26th annual meeting of the Asia Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF-26) in Hanoi, Vietnam from January 18-21, 2018. Under the umbrella theme of “Parliamentary Partnership, Peace, Innovation and Sustainable Development” the regional meeting adopted 14 working

PALIKIR, POHNPEI – January 09, 2018.  Speaker Wesley W. Simina has delayed the January Session or the Third Regular Session of the 20th Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia from January 10th to convene instead on the 29th. Speaker Simina’s letter to President Peter M. Christian explained that the slight delay is to “accommodate the hearing schedules

PALIKIR, POHNPEI – November 15, 2017.  The recently adjourned session of the 20th Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia approved for the Nation a new Secretary for its recently created department of Environment, Climate Change and Emergency Management and approved for the Nation funding for a new consulate office, among other measures. As called by President

PALIKIR, POHNPEI – October 27, 2017. In accordance with Presidential authorities under the Constitution of the Federated States of Micronesia, President Peter M. Christian has called for a five-day special session of the Congress in Palikir to begin on October 30, 2017. The President’s stated reason for the Call was for a “few important matters

St. Petersburg, Russia. On October 16, 2017, Wesley W. Simina, Speaker of the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) addressed the world’s parliamentarians gathered at the 137th Inter Parliamentary Union Assembly (IPU) in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, on the assembly’s theme of “promoting cultural pluralism and peace through inter-faith and inter-ethnic dialogue”. Speaker Simina,

PALIKIR, POHNPEI. On October 09, 2017, Senator David W. Panuelo received, on behalf of Speaker Wesley W. Simina, the United States of America Ambassador Robert Riley and the new U.S. Pacific Command Representative, Rear Admiral Shoshana Chatfield. Rear Admiral Chatfield took over command from Rear Adm. Babette “Bette” Bolivar as the U.S. Pacific Command representative to Guam,

PALIKIR, POHNPEI – October 8, 2017.  The 20th Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia adjourned its Second Regular Session on September 29th with the passage of measures for a new national budget and a new national department, among many others.  As convened on September 14, the 2nd Regular Session was to foremost pass the fiscal year 2018 operations

PALIKIR, POHNPEI – October 6, 2017. The Second Regular Session of the Twentieth Congress adjourned on September 29 with the adoption of resolutions on various nomination and the various programs and services facilitated by the National Government, among others.  On the nominations, the Congress adopted Congressional Resolution (CR) 20-22 to confirm Sihna Neth Lawrence as the Nation’s

PALIKIR, POHNPEI. On September 27, 2017, a delegation from the U.S. Embassy led by Ambassador Robert Riley and D.C.M. Joanne Cummings accompanied Captain Christopher M. Chase, Guam Sector Commander- U.S. Coast Guard, along with an entourage of Coast Guard personnel to meet with Speaker Wesley W. Simina. Captain Christopher M. Chase took over command from