Senator's views concerning a variety of issues.

Open to Traffic

The DeSoto Times-Tribune

Open to Traffic

By Robert Lee Long and Bob Bakken

With a crowd of more than 700 gathered underneath a highway overpass on a chilly, blustery morning, the final completed segment of the nation's newest superhighway, I-269, was opened to the public amid fanfare and soaring...

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State, local issues get spotlight at ICC

Daily Journal
 

State, local issues get spotlight at ICC
 

By Caleb Bedillion
 

FULTON • Jobs training and rural development were major themes as a trio of federal lawmakers evaluated the state of Mississippi and of the 1st Congressional District.
 

Sen. Roger Wicker, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and...

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Mississippi officials react to death of former President George H.W. Bush

WLOX-TV Biloxi
 
Mississippi officials react to death of former President George H.W. Bush
 
By Annie Johnson
 
MISSISSIPPI (WLOX) - After receiving the devastating news that former President George H. W. Bush died Friday night, several Mississippi leaders released their own reaction to the news.
 
G...

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Thompson: Straight talk about women, GOP

Hendersonville (N.C.) Times-News  

Thompson: Straight talk about women, GOP

By Bill Thompson

Republicans have as a strong history of promoting them.

It seems in 2018 the “Year of the Woman” finally arrived in American politics. Rutgers University’s Center for American Women in Politics...

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No other Congress has ever looked like this

CNN Politics

No other Congress has ever looked like this

By Clare Foran and Phil Mattingly

The 116th class of Congress broke barriers before its members even set foot in Washington.

One example: Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat who will be the first Somali-American member of...

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Preliminary 116th Roster: Senate Rules and Administration

CQ Roll Call

Preliminary 116th Roster: Senate Rules and Administration

Last Modified: 12:00 AM, Thu Jan 03, 2019

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Following is a preliminary roster for the 116th Congress for the Senate Rules and Administration Committee, released by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Jan. 3...

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Cindy Hyde-Smith to lead Senate Legislative Branch spending panel

Roll Call 

Cindy Hyde-Smith to lead Senate Legislative Branch spending panel

By Katherine Tully-McManus 

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith will take the gavel of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee for the new Congress. The Mississippi Republican is a relative newcomer to the panel...

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