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United States House of Representatives

Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen

Delegate for American Samoa

RRepublicanServing since 2015Non-voting
Washington office
2001 Rayburn House Office Building
Phone
202-225-8577
Official site
radewagen.house.gov
Bioguide ID
R000600

What they did in office

How long have they been in office, and where?

Every federal term on record, with party changes, chamber changes, and breaks in service marked.

First took office
2015
Terms served
6
Years actually served
12
Every federal term on record
YearsChamberSeat PartyTransition
2015–2017HouseAmerican Samoa At-LargeRepublican
2017–2019HouseAmerican Samoa At-LargeRepublican
2019–2021HouseAmerican Samoa At-LargeRepublican
2021–2023HouseAmerican Samoa At-LargeRepublican
2023–2025HouseAmerican Samoa At-LargeRepublican
2025–2027HouseAmerican Samoa At-LargeRepublican

Terms held before federal office — state legislature, local office, or appointed roles — are not in the federal record and are not shown.

State and local office held before Congress is not in any federal dataset and is not shown.

Source · unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain)

Did voters choose them for every term?

Whether each term began with a general election, a special election, or an appointment by a governor.

No appointment or special election is recorded for this member. The roster marks how a term began for fewer than one term in a hundred, so an absence here means the record is silent — not that every term began with a general election.

An appointed senator holds the seat lawfully and with full powers; the point is only that no ballot was cast for them at the time. A special election is the opposite case — voters did choose, just outside the normal cycle. House vacancies can only be filled by election, never by appointment, which is why appointments appear on Senate pages alone.

Source · unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain)

What power do they hold inside the chamber?

Formal leadership posts — Speaker, Whip, Conference Chair, President Pro Tempore — with the years each was held.

This member has not held a formal leadership post.

Leadership is distinct from committee work. It controls what reaches the floor and when, which is power that never appears in a voting record.

Source · unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain)

Has their family served in Congress before?

Relatives who have also held federal office.

No relatives of this member are recorded as having served in Congress.

A political family is not a finding about anyone's conduct. It is shown because it is on the public record and is otherwise invisible.

Source · unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain)

Who held this seat before them?

Every person who has ever occupied this seat, and the party of each.

People who have held it
3
Seat dates from
1981
Changes of party
1
Everyone who has held this seat, most recent first
YearsNameParty
2015–2027Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen CurrentRepublican
1989–2015Eni F. H. FaleomavaegaDemocrat
1981–1989Fofó SuniaDemocrat

Senate seats are tracked by class, which never changes, so that lineage is continuous. House districts are tracked by number, and redistricting reassigns numbers — the 3rd district of 1850 is not the same territory as the 3rd district today. Read the older entries as the history of the number, not of the ground.

Source · unitedstates/congress-legislators, current and historical (public domain)

How did they vote on the bills that came to a vote?

Every recorded vote of their career. Most bills never reach a recorded vote at all, so this is not the whole of what Congress considered.

This office does not vote on final passage on the House floor. Delegates and the Resident Commissioner may vote in committee and in the Committee of the Whole.

Most roll calls are procedural, not final passage. A vote against a motion to recommit is not a vote against the bill. Final passage is shown by default; procedural votes are behind the toggle.

Source · Voteview, UCLA — complete roll calls from the 1st Congress

What passed without anyone going on the record?

Bills their chamber approved by voice vote or unanimous consent, where no individual position was ever recorded.

None detected. This section currently recognises a voice-vote passage only when it is a bill's most recent action, which misses most House passages — the Senate usually acts last. Treat an empty result here as incomplete, not as a finding that nothing passed this way.

A large share of legislation passes this way. Absence from this member's vote list does not mean absence from the chamber's work.

Source · Congress.gov actions feed

Did they vote to weaken bills they then voted for?

Amendment votes paired with the final passage vote on the same bill.

No bill in this member's record has both an amendment vote and a final passage vote on file.

Both votes are shown side by side with no characterisation. Amending a bill is ordinary legislating; the pairing is shown because it is otherwise invisible, not because it is an accusation.

Source · Voteview roll calls joined to Congress.gov amendment records

How have they voted on the issues you care about?

Their final-passage votes grouped by policy area, with the outcome of each bill.

No policy areas are attached to this member's votes yet.

How this is calculated Counts of Yea, Nay, and Not Voting on final-passage votes, grouped by the bill's CRS policy area. Nothing is weighted and no direction is scored — these are counts.

A vote on a bill is not a position on an issue. Members vote against bills they support over cost, over an unrelated provision, or over process. Read the individual votes rather than the totals.

Source · Policy areas assigned by the Congressional Research Service and published through the Congress.gov API. This site uses the CRS classification and does not create its own.

How does this compare with the rest of their delegation?

The same final-passage votes, alongside how the other members from their state voted.

No delegation comparison is available for this office.

Agreement or disagreement with colleagues is not a measure of anything. It is shown because it is the comparison a constituent is usually trying to make and cannot easily make anywhere else.

Source · Voteview roll calls joined to the current roster

What did they write, and what happened to it?

Bills sponsored and cosponsored, and how far each one got — enacted, passed one chamber, or died in committee.

Sponsored
20
Became law
2
Cosponsored
943
Most recent sponsored legislation
BillTitle and latest actionIntroduced
HR 8904To amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to provide for the regulation of fishing in marine national monuments.
Subcommittee Hearings Held
2026-05-19
HR 449To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to waive certain naturalization requirements for United States nationals, and for other purposes.
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
2025-01-15
HR 399To permanently extend the American Samoa economic development tax credit.
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
2025-01-14
HR 6158American Samoa Statutory Nationality and Citizenship Act
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
2025-11-19
HR 5976To protect collective self-determination and individual rights under Federal statutes conferring nationality on persons born and residing in the territory of American Samoa, to enable subsequent elective United States citizenship upon application of such persons residing in a State or in a territory subject to sections 301 through 308 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, and for other purposes.
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
2025-11-07
HR 531South Pacific Tuna Treaty Act of 2025
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
2025-01-16
HR 314Empowering Nonprofits Act
Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
2025-01-09
HR 315To waive certain provisions in the case of an emergency declaration under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.
2025-01-09
HR 10236To permanently extend the American Samoa economic development tax credit.
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
2024-11-21
HR 6606To amend the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 relating to the statement of policy.
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
2023-12-05
HR 6061To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to waive certain naturalization requirements for United States nationals, and for other purposes.
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
2023-10-25
HR 6062To restore the ability of the people of American Samoa to approve amendments to the territorial constitution based on majority rule in a democratic act of self-determination, as authorized pursuant to an Act of Congress delegating administration of Federal territorial law in the territory to the President, and to the Secretary of the Interior under Executive Order 10264, dated June 29, 1951, under which the Constitution of American Samoa was approved and may be amended without requirement for further congressional action, subject to the authority of Congress under the Territorial Clause in article IV, section 3, clause 2 of the United States Constitution.
Became Public Law No: 118-232.
2023-10-25
HR 1792South Pacific Tuna Treaty Act of 2023
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
2023-03-24
HR 9350To restore ability of the people of American Samoa to approve amendments to the territorial constitution based on majority rule in a democratic act of self-determination, as authorized pursuant to Act of Congress delegating administration of Federal territorial law in the territory to the President, and to the Secretary of the Interior under Executive Order 10264, dated June 29, 1951, under which the Constitution of American Samoa was approved and may be amended without requirement for further Congressional action, subject to the authority of Congress under the Territorial Clause in article IV, section 3, clause 2 of the United States Constitution.
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
2022-11-18
HR 3845Parity for HUBZone Appeals Act of 2021
Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
2021-06-11

How this is calculated Enacted ÷ sponsored. Both counts shown, not just the ratio.

Most bills die in committee. A low enactment count is the norm, not an outlier.

Source · Congress.gov API, Library of Congress

Did they try to force votes leadership would not schedule?

Discharge petition signatures — the mechanism for pulling a bill out of committee against the leadership's wishes.

Not in the local cache yet. python3 discharge_ingest.py

Source · Office of the Clerk, discharge petition record

What do they have power over?

Committee and subcommittee assignments, with chair and ranking-member roles.

Current assignments
Committee or subcommitteeRole
House Committee on Foreign Affairs
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs considers legislation that impacts the diplomatic community, which includes the Department of State, the Agency for International Development, the Peace Corps, the United Nations, and the enforcement of the Arms Export Control Act.
Member
House Committee on Natural Resources
The House Committee on Natural Resources considers legislation about American energy production, mineral lands and mining, fisheries and wildlife, public lands, oceans, Native Americans, irrigation and reclamation.
Member
House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
The House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is the authorizing committee for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The committee is responsible for recommending legislation expanding, curtailing, or fine-tuning existing laws relating to veterans' benefits. The Committee also has oversight responsibility, which means monitoring and evaluating the operations of the VA. If the Committee finds that VA is not administering laws as Congress intended, then it is addressed through the hearing process and legislation.
Member
House Committee on Foreign Affairs — AfricaMember
House Committee on Foreign Affairs — East Asia and PacificMember
House Committee on Natural Resources — Indian and Insular AffairsMember
House Committee on Natural Resources — Water, Wildlife and FisheriesMember
House Committee on Veterans' Affairs — Disability Assistance and Memorial AffairsMember
House Committee on Veterans' Affairs — Oversight and InvestigationsMember

A committee name says little about what it controls. The jurisdiction is the committee's own description of its remit, and it is what makes the holdings section below meaningful.

Source · unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain); jurisdiction text as published by each committee

Who pays

Who funds their campaign?

Money raised and spent by their principal campaign committee in the current two-year period, 2025–26, and where it came from.

Total raised
$39,216
Total spent
$36,604
Cash on hand
$4,269
From individuals
$20,400
From committees
$17,500
Largest contributor employers
Employer as reportedItemized total
AMERICAN TUNA ASSOCIATION$5,000
STEAMSHIP TRADE ASSOCIATION$5,000
WILLIAM LFPLC$3,300
NULL$3,000
7 BROTHERS$2,000
GA PORTS AUTHORITY$2,000

Every member is shown over the same two-year window. A senator's election cycle runs six years, so a senator's lifetime campaign totals are larger than this; showing two years for everyone keeps the figures comparable across the House and Senate. Contributor employer is self-reported by the donor. It groups individuals who share an employer. It is not a contribution from that company — corporations cannot give to candidates.

Source · Federal Election Commission, OpenFEC API

Who are the people writing the largest checks?

Every individual the FEC itemises, by name, with the employer and occupation they reported.

Itemised donors
6
From named donors
$20,300
Largest single donor
$5,000
Every itemised individual donor the FEC publishes, largest first
DonorCityEmployer and occupation GiftsTotal
David HartmanHydes, MDSTEAMSHIP TRADE ASSOCIATION
VP
1$5,000
William Gibbons-FlyAnnapolis, MDAMERICAN TUNA ASSOCIATION
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
2$5,000
Michael WilliamsAlexandria, VAWILLIAM LFPLC
LAWYER
1$3,300
Maggie ListTampa, FLNot reported1$3,000
Sonny ParkAtlanta, GAGA PORTS AUTHORITY
MANAGER
1$2,000
Arthur HannemannLaie, HI7 BROTHERS
CHAIRMAN
1$2,000

6 itemised donors are on file and all are listed above. The complete list, with no cut-off, is in this CSV. Contributions under $200 in total are not itemised by law, so no public record names those donors — for most campaigns that is a substantial share of the money raised. Street addresses appear in the FEC filing and are deliberately not reproduced here.

How this is calculated Contributions summed per person across the cycle. The FEC itemises a donor once their total passes $200; below that, no public record names them.

Employer and occupation are self-reported by the donor and are often blank or vague. Street addresses appear in the FEC filing and are deliberately not reproduced here — city and state answer whether money is local without putting anyone's home on a searchable page.

Source · Federal Election Commission, Schedule A itemised individual contributions

How much of it comes from the people they represent?

Itemized individual contributions from inside the state, against contributions from everywhere else.

From American Samoa
0%
In-state total
$0
All itemized
$20,300
Itemized individual contributions by state
StateTotal
Maryland$10,000
Virginia$3,300
Florida$3,000
Georgia$2,000
Hawaii$2,000

How this is calculated In-state itemized ÷ total itemized. Unitemized small-dollar money has no address on file and is excluded from both.

Source · FEC Schedule A, aggregated by contributor state

Who spends on their behalf without asking them?

Independent expenditures supporting or opposing this member, by outside groups.

No independent expenditures supporting or opposing this member are on file this cycle.

This money is legally beyond the candidate's control and cannot be coordinated with the campaign. It is shown separately from campaign finance for that reason. Spending against a member is listed alongside spending for them.

Source · FEC Schedule E, independent expenditures

Do they run a second committee most people never see?

Leadership PACs are separate from the campaign. They may pay for travel, meals, and contributions to other members.

Committees separate from the campaign
CommitteeTypeFEC ID
CONCERNED CITIZENS COMING TO A CONSENSUS ON CULTURAL AND COMMERCE CHALLENGESLeadership PACC00479378

A leadership PAC is legal and common. It is shown because almost no voter knows these exist, not because having one is irregular.

Source · FEC candidate committees, filtered to leadership PACs

Which colleagues do they fund?

Contributions from this member's committees to other members' campaigns — the internal influence economy of Congress.

No payments from this member's campaign to other sitting members' campaigns appear in the itemised disbursements.

Recipients are matched on surname against the sitting roster. A common surname can produce a false match, so this is shown as a name match and linked to the primary filing rather than asserted as a transfer.

Source · FEC Schedule B, recipients matched against the member roster

Who else does their campaign pay?

Where campaign money goes — consultants, vendors, salaries, and any payments to the member's relatives or own businesses.

Largest campaign payments
Paid toPurposeDateAmount
K.S MARTCAMPAIGN ADVERTISING EXPENSES2026-04-06$5,125
ALL STARS SIGNSCAMPAIGN SUPPLIES2026-04-27$1,800
PAGO PAGO VILLAGE COUNCILDONATION TO PAGO VILLAGE2026-05-22$1,500
J. LEN T INCCAMPAIGN SUPPLIES2026-06-03$1,419
J. LEN T INCCAMPAIGN MATERIALS2026-04-13$1,348
ALL STARS SIGNSADVERTISEMENT FOR CAMPAIGN2026-06-08$1,348
NUUULI VILLAGE COUNCILDONATION2026-05-22$1,200
GIANT FOODSOFFICE SUPPLIES2025-03-31$1,020
AMATA, AUMUAREIMBURSEMENT FOR POLIRICAL CONTRIBUTIIONS2025-11-04$1,010
USLE, MICHAEL LAWRENCE MR. SR.FEC REPORTS: TWO QUARTERS AT $500 PER QUARTER2026-04-09$1,000
ALS AUDIOLEONE HIGH SCHOO AUDIO DONATION FOR CEREMONY2026-06-05$1,000
USLE, MICHAEL LAWRENCE MR. SR.FEC REPORTS FOR FOA AND 7 C'S2025-04-16$1,000
GIANT FOODSADVERTISING SUPPLIES2025-04-21$1,000
SAMOA NEWSADVERTISING2026-03-13$1,000
TRADEWINDSLODGING AND CAMPAIGN MEETINGS2026-04-20$880
AMATA COLEMAN RADEWAGEN Surname matchREIMBURSEMENT FOR SMALL CAMPAIGN PURCHASES2026-05-04$750
AMATA, AUMUAREIMBURSEMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL EXPENSES2025-05-28$700
CAPITAL HILL CLUBMEETINGS AND CONFERENCES2026-03-11$631
NUUULI SERVICE STATIONMAINTENANCE FOR OFFICE AUTO2025-06-13$609
AMATA, AUMUAREIMBURSE FOR POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS2025-01-06$600
AMATA, AUMUAREIMBURSEMENT FOR MISC EXPENSES WHILE TRAVELING2025-11-03$505
AMATA, AUMUAPOLITICAL DONATION REIMBUREMENT2025-06-04$500
AMATA COLEMAN RADEWAGEN Surname matchPOLITICLA CONTRIBUTION2026-01-02$500
USLE, MICHAEL LAWRENCE MR. SR.FEC REPORTS 3RD QTR2025-08-08$500
AMATA, AUMUAREIMBURSEMENT FOR SMALL CONTRIBUTION2025-10-30$464

2 payee(s) share this member's surname. That is a name match only, shown because it is otherwise invisible — not a finding.

Payments to relatives are disclosed and are not by themselves improper. They are flagged only where the payee surname matches the member's, and that match is shown as a match, not as a finding.

Source · FEC Schedule B, itemized disbursements

Did they lend their campaign money and get paid back?

Candidate loans to the campaign, and repayments of those loans out of money raised afterward.

No loans to the campaign are on file this cycle.

Source · FEC Schedule C loans and Schedule B repayments

Who lobbies them, and who pays for their events?

Contributions and honorary payments disclosed by registered lobbyists, plus lobbying filings naming their committees.

No lobbyist has disclosed a contribution naming this member in the years on file.

These are disclosures made by lobbyists, not acts by the member. LD-203 covers contributions made to or events held in honour of an official, and a member may be named in one without having been involved in the payment.

Source · LDA.gov. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.

Conduct with public trust

What do they own, and what have they traded?

Assets, liabilities, outside income, and individual securities transactions — disclosed because they hold federal office.

Financial disclosures are not in the local cache. Populate them with: python3 fd_ingest.py --years 2025 2026

Amounts are reported as ranges, not exact figures — that is how the form works. Holdings owned by a dependent child are excluded from this site entirely.

Source · Office of the Clerk, U.S. House. Ethics in Government Act and STOCK Act filings.

Did they disclose their trades on time?

The STOCK Act requires a transaction to be reported within 45 days. This is the gap between each trade and its filing.

Not in the local cache yet. python3 fd_ingest.py --years 2025 2026 --parse-ptr

How this is calculated Filing date minus transaction date, in days. Statutory deadline is 45. Each trade shown individually; no average, because one 300-day filing and nine on-time ones is not the same as ten 30-day filings.

A late filing is a fact against a statutory deadline. The Ethics Committees, not this site, determine whether a late filing is a violation.

Source · Computed from filing dates in House Clerk PTR documents

Do their holdings overlap what their committees decide?

Committee jurisdiction on one side, disclosed holdings and contributor industries on the other.

What their committees decide
House Committee on Foreign Affairs
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs considers legislation that impacts the diplomatic community, which includes the Department of State, the Agency for…
House Committee on Natural Resources
The House Committee on Natural Resources considers legislation about American energy production, mineral lands and mining, fisheries and wildlife, public…
House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
The House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is the authorizing committee for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The committee is responsible for…
Largest contributor employers
Employer as reportedItemized total
AMERICAN TUNA ASSOCIATION$5,000
STEAMSHIP TRADE ASSOCIATION$5,000
WILLIAM LFPLC$3,300
NULL$3,000
7 BROTHERS$2,000
GA PORTS AUTHORITY$2,000

These two lists are placed side by side and nothing is asserted about the relationship between them. An overlap is not evidence of wrongdoing. The reader draws the conclusion; this site does not.

Source · Committee jurisdictions from congress-legislators; holdings from House Clerk filings; industries from FEC filings

Who paid for their travel?

Trips funded by private parties rather than the taxpayer or the campaign — who paid, where, and what it cost.

Not in the local cache yet. python3 travel_ingest.py

Source · House Clerk gift and travel disclosures

How do they spend the taxpayer money for their office?

Quarterly office accounts — staff salaries, travel, equipment, and taxpayer-funded constituent mail.

Not in the local cache yet. python3 disbursements_ingest.py

Franked mail volume is shown against the election calendar because the timing is the thing that is otherwise invisible.

Source · Statement of Disbursements of the House, quarterly

What did they request for their district?

Community Project Funding requests — members must publish these, usually on their own sites where few people find them.

Not in the local cache yet. python3 earmark_ingest.py

Source · House Appropriations Committee member request disclosures

Has any authority investigated them?

Proceedings before the House or Senate Ethics Committees, the Office of Congressional Conduct, and FEC enforcement matters.

Not in the local cache yet. python3 ethics_ingest.py

Only findings by bodies authorised to make them appear here, always attributed to that body. An empty section means no proceedings are on file — which is the ordinary case, not a gap in the record.

Source · House Ethics, Senate Ethics, OCC referrals, FEC MURs

Check it yourself

Where does all of this come from?

The systems of record behind this page. Go and check them — that is the point. Sections drawing on other sources name them in their own footers.

Source · Primary documents, government systems of record

Where are their local offices?

District and state offices — the ones that answer their own phones.

Pagopago1 Fagatogo Square, Box 5859, Pagopago, AS 96799
684-633-3601

Mail to Washington passes through irradiation screening and can take weeks to arrive. For anything time-sensitive, the local office is the working address.

Source · unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain)

Where do they speak publicly?

Official accounts of the office.

These are official office accounts. Personal and campaign accounts are not in the federal dataset and are not listed.

Source · unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain)

How do I contact this office?

The office's own contact form, phone, and Washington address.

No contact form is listed for this office in the public roster. Their official site carries one.

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Congressional offices weigh mail from their own constituents. Nothing written here passes through this site.

Source · unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain)