From AP over the weekend:

Spokesmen for both Pelosi and Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., the author of the minimum wage bill, said it excluded American Samoa at the request of nonvoting Delegate Eni Faleomavaega, a Democrat who represents the Pacific island territories in the House. Raising the federal minimum wage would devastate the local tuna industry, Faleomavaega said in a statement last week, noting that American Samoa’s economy is “more than 80 percent” dependent on two U.S. tuna processors, Chicken of the Sea and StarKist. Faleomavaega said the Labor Department reviews Samoa’s minimum wages every two years.

Faleomavaega also said on Wednesday that the Democrat-supported increase in the minimum wage would cause “the collapse of our economy.”