News Mississippi
Deal temporarily ends government shutdown
By Steven Gagliano
President Trump has announced a deal to temporarily reopen the government after the 35-day shutdown.
The deal will reopen the government until February 15, but Trump suggested that if no funding for a border...
Brookhaven Daily Leader
Wicker, Hyde-Smith challenge new liver transplant policy
By Daily Leader Staff
U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) are challenging a new policy that could divert livers donated for transplant in Mississippi to other regions of the country...
WLOX-TV Biloxi
Hyde-Smith proposes using tariff revenues to fund border wall
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WLOX) - U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith announced the introduction of legislation to fund U.S. border security barriers with revenues generated from tariffs imposed on Chinese goods.
Hyde-Smith, who...
WLBT-TV Jackson
Local students selected for United States Senate Youth Program
By Morgan Howard and ShaCamree Gowdy
JACKSON, MS (WLBT) - Cadet Col. Ruben Banks from Jim Hill High School and Kennedy Guest, a student at Brandon High School, have been selected for the 2019 United States...
High Plains Journal
Changes announced for Senate, House ag committees
By Larry Dreiling
With the recent start of the 116th Congress, House and Senate leaders have announced the memberships of their committees.
Notable is the absence of Rep. Frank Lucas, R-OK, on the House Agriculture...
Tulsa (Okla.) Beacon
Editorial: Stop the funding for abortions
Abortion is murder and it should be abolished in Tulsa, Oklahoma and America.
And taxpayer funding should not pay for the murder of unborn babies.
U.S. Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, and 13...
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...
