WLBT-TV Jackson
Wicker, Hyde-Smith announce $37.6 Million for Mississippi Head Start programs
By China Lee
JACKSON, MS (WLBT) - U.S. Senators Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith have announced the award of $37.6 million in federal grant funding for Head Start programs in Mississippi.
That...
News Mississippi
Mississippi students selected for U.S. Senate Youth Program
By Brittany Land
Ruben Banks, of Jackson, and Kennedy Guest, of Brandon, were selected from among the state’s top student leaders to be part of the 2019 United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP).
Banks, a Jim...
KIOW-FM Souix City, Iowa
Ernst Introduces Bill to Defund Planned Parenthood, Redirect Funds to Women’s Health Care
By AJ Taylor
Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), and 31 of her Senate colleagues, reintroduced legislation to prevent any taxpayer dollars from going to the nation’s single largest...
News Mississippi
Senators cosponsor “Protect Medicaid Act”
By Steven Gagliano
Earlier this week, U.S. Senators Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith helped introduce S. 131, the “Protect Medicaid Act,”which would prevent states from using federal resources to expand Medicaid services to illegal...
Life News
Democrats Defeat Pro-Life Senate Bill to Permanently Ban Taxpayer Funding of Abortions
By Steven Ertelt
WASHINGTON, DC - The Senate voted Thursday afternoon on a pro-life bill that would permanently ban taxpayer funding of abortions. However, pro-abortion Senate Democrats...
WJTV-TV, Jackson
Protect Medicaid Act; Wicker and Hyde introduce a new Act
By: DeAngelo Vaxter
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - Republicans' U.S. Senators Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde Smith introduce "Protect Medicaid Act", which would prevent states from using federal resources to expand Medicaid...
Liberty Headlines
‘Protect Medicaid Act’ Would Ensure NY, CA Don’t Give Federal Dollars to Illegals
By Joshua Paladino
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., introduced a bill Thursday that would prohibit states from spending federal Medicaid dollars on illegal aliens.
Republican Sens. Roger Wicker...
WXXV-TV Gulfport
Hyde-Smith Votes Permanent Ban On Abortion Funding
By WXXV Staff
U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith voted to proceed to legislation that would establish a permanent and government-wide ban on the use of federal funding for abortions.
The Senate voted 48-47 on a motion to...
Mississippi Today
Legislation to designate Evers home as a national monument reintroduced
By Mississippi Today
Mississippi’s two senators have reintroduced legislation to designate Medgar and Myrlie Evers’ Jackson home as a national monument within the National Park System.
“The Medgar...
Farmington (Mo.) Press
Blunt, Stabenow introduce bill extending community health center funding
WASHINGTON – U.S. senators Roy Blunt, R-MO, and Debbie Stabenow, D-MI, last week introduced the Community Health Investment, Modernization, and Excellence (CHIME) Act, which would reauthorize the...
