FSM Congress News, June 5, 2003 PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Congress): June 5, 2003 – Congress got busier than usual the last week of May to June and adjourned sine-die on June 4. It passed on 2nd and Final Reading ten bills, three resolutions and deferred action on…

U.S., Federated States Sign 20-Year Compact HONOLULU, Hawai’i (Pacific Island Report): May 14, 2003 – Negotiators for the United States and the Federated States of Micronesia have signed a $1.8 billion compact aimed at economic self-sufficiency in the fledgling island nation. The amended document, initialed yesterday in…

FSM Congress News, March 18, 2003 PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Congress): March 18, 2003 – Members expressed thanks and appreciation to Speaker Jack Fritz for the many years he served as a public servant to the people of the nation as a member of Congress and as Speaker….

FSM Congress News, May 13, 2003 PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Congress): May 13, 2003 – Today Speaker Peter M. Christian declared the vacant positions after President Joseph J. Urusemal and Vice President Redley Killion left to begin their rolls in their new offices at the Executive Branch. Within…

FSM Congress News, March 13, 2003 PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Congress): March 13, 2003 – Congress amends Public Law No. 10-11 in a bill passed First Reading today to allow non Congress members to be on the Joint Committee on Compact Economic Negotiations (JCN). The bill was originally…

FSM Congress News, November 6, 2003 PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Congress): November 6, 2003 – Congress approved funding for the second quarter of fiscal year 2004 for the operation of the national government, federal agencies, programs and other activities, before adjourning sine-die Sunday, November 2. Before the approval…

Fritz and Peyal sworn in PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Congress): March 14, 2003 – FSM Supreme Court Associate Justice Dennis Yamase, in a one-day special session, administered the oath of office to two more Members of the 13th FSM Congress on Saturday, July 12. Senator Jack Fritz of…

13th Congress convened PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Congress): May 12, 2003 – Congress wrote another page of its history today when it unanimously Senator Peter M. Christian of Pohnpei as the Speaker of the 13th Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia. Senator Claude H. Phillip of Kosrae…

FSM Congress News, March 13, 2003 PALIKIR, Pohnpei (FSM Congress): March 13, 2003 – Members of Congress are concerned that the 13th FSM Congress may not be able to provide funding for operation of the national government for FY 2004 if funding source (s) cannot be identified….