This Week In Congress

PALIKIR, POHNPEI.  May 18, 2011 – The Seventeenth Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia has called in the Departments, Offices and Agencies of the National Government to review their budgets for fiscal year 2012. For three days after the reorganization of May 11th, members of Congress attended to the logistical and organizational matters within their Delegations […]

PALIKIR, POHNPEI. May 11, 2009 – The Seventeenth Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia convened on May 11 2011 and re-elected Senator Emanuel ‘Manny’ Mori to the Presidency and Senator Isaac V. Figir for the Speakership of the new Congress. Congress elected to continue the composition of the National Leadership with President Mori and

PALIKIR, POHNPEI. May 9, 2011 – The Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia will convene in Palikir on Wednesday – May 11 2011, at 10am Pohnpei time, to induct members-elect of the new Seventeenth Congress and to reorganize the leadership of the National Government. On Wednesday, the new Congressional Body will select the leadership of

PALIKIR, POHNPEI.  May 4, 2011 – The Office of the Speaker, in collaboration with the United Nation Development Programme (UNDP), today launched a two-day FSM Congress Orientation Seminar for the elected members of the Seventeenth Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia. Speaker Isaac V. Figir observed that, “it has long been felt in Congress

PALIKIR, POHNPEI. The Sixth Special Session of the Sixteenth Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia adjourned right after passage of Congressional Act 16-78, a measure to establish for the nation a Unified Revenue Authority (URA). Congressional Act 16-78, is one of five bills currently pending before congress for the tax reform initiative underway for

PALIKIR, POHNPEI. – The Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia has been admitted as a member of the international parliament organization called the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). On April 16, 2011, the Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union adopted in Panama a resolution to admit the FSM Congress as a member of the international body.

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

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

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

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