just a typical day in the chambers of our nation's law makers....btw the exclusion was not done by pelosi (nice innuendo with delmonte/san francisco) but by the non-voting us rep from samoa. he's a democrat.
the existing minimum wage regs do not apply to workers in american samoa. there's also no tariffs on product imported to the usa from samoa. no tax on income a us citizen receives in samoa.
samoa gets a ton of special considerations...
found a dol study saying a minimum wage increase will not result in higher unemployment. labor is not a major cost and productivity is growing.
http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/AS/sec6.htm