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The Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) is a unit of the United States Department of the Interior that oversees federal administration of several United States insular areas.It is the successor to the Bureau of Insular Affairs of the War Department, which administered certain territories from 1902 to 1939, and the Office of Territorial Affairs (formerly the Division of Territories and Island ...
The bureau was created 13 December 1898 as the Division of Customs and Insular Affairs within the Office of the Secretary of War. [1] This followed the Spanish–American War, which resulted in the transfer of several areas from Spain to the United States, including the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Cuba.
Carmen G. Cantor (born February 23, 1968) is an American diplomat who served as the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Insular Affairs from 2022 to 2025. She previously served as the United States ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia .
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In August 1993, Pula joined the United States Department of the Interior, specifically working for the Office of Insular Affairs (OIA). [2] He worked as a policy desk officer from 1993 to 2000 and served as the OIA Acting Director from 1999 to 2002. [5] He was named the Director of the OIA in 2002 and became the first Samoan ever to hold the ...
The Justice Department has taken new steps to condemn a series of racist Supreme Court rulings from a century ago that effectively allowed people living in U.S. territories to be treated like ...
Below is a list of nominations and appointments to the Department of Interior by Joe Biden, the 46th president of the United States.As of July 23, 2024, according to tracking by The Washington Post and Partnership for Public Service, 10 nominees have been confirmed, 2 nominees are being considered by the Senate, 4 positions do not have nominees, and 2 appointments have been made to positions ...
Following the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, it became the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, absorbing the jurisdiction of the Indian Affairs, Territorial and Insular Affairs, Mines and Mining, and Irrigation and Reclamation committees. Its most recent iteration, the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, was established ...