This Week In Congress

Congress delays maritime surveillance fund to assist neighbors

PALIKIR, POHNPEI. March 31, 2011 – The Sixteenth Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia has appropriated the sum of 180,000 from the General Fund to assist with relief efforts for the recent natural disasters in the neighboring countries of Australia, New Zealand and Japan. On Day Nine of the Sixth Special Session, Congress passed Congressional […]

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Special Session to wrap up matters pending under current Congress

PALIKIR, POHNPEI. March 22, 2011 – The Sixth Special Session of the Sixteenth Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia is under way in Palikir to address matters pending before the various Standing Committees of the Congress. Speaker Isaac V. Figir called for the Special Session to convene on March 21 2011, for a five-day

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National Elections underway for members of 17th Congress

PALIKIR, POHNPEI. March 8, 2011 – The polls places across the Federated States of Micronesia opened this morning for the 2011 National Elections where twenty three candidate hopefuls are vying to be the States’ representatives to the upcoming Seventeenth FSM Congress. Today’s  elections will seat in May the 14 members of the new Legislative Body

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Speaker Figir flags Compact annual decrements for symposium action

Weno, CHUUK. February 10, 2011 – Speaker Isaac V. Figir of the Sixteenth Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia advised the national economic symposium that the FSM “is now in a position to either make or break its long-term economic viability.” The Speaker’s message was directed to the participants of the National Economic Symposium currently

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New Eighteenth FSM Congress to reorganize on May 11

PALIKIR, POHNPEI. May 8, 2009  –  The Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia will convene in Palikir at 10am on Saturday – May 11 2013,  for the Opening Session of the nation’s Eighteenth Congressional Body. The Opening Session will seat the recently elected two-year representatives of the four states to the FSM Congress. In addition,

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