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Senator Hyde-Smith supports common-sense, patient-centered healthcare reforms to help Mississippi families afford health insurance coverage without expanding the government’s role in providing health care.  She believes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, should be repealed.

Senator Hyde-Smith appreciates the role of the state’s universities to support federal research on better prevention and treatment efforts on chronic diseases, like diabetes, that affect Mississippians disproportionally.


Mississippi Senator introduces ‘Safer Shrimp Imports Act’

WLOX-TV Biloxi

Mississippi Senator introduces ‘Safer Shrimp Imports Act’
 
"It would give American consumers greater confidence that the imported shrimp they're eating isn't contaminated."

By WLOX Staff

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Cindy Hyde-Smith, a U.S. Senator from Mississippi, introduced...

HYDE-SMITH VOTES TO KEEP FENTANYL A SCHEDULE I DRUG TO CURB OVERDOSES, DEATHS

HYDE-SMITH VOTES TO KEEP FENTANYL A SCHEDULE I DRUG TO CURB OVERDOSES, DEATHS

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today joined her Senate colleagues in passing bipartisan legislation to ensure law enforcement and prosecutors continue to have a key tool needed to combat the scourge of crime, overdoses, and deaths caused by fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances.

The Senate voted 84-16 to approve the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act or HALT Fentanyl Act (S.331...

HYDE-SMITH RESTARTS EFFORT TO BAN RESEARCH USING FETAL TISSUE FROM ABORTIONS

HYDE-SMITH RESTARTS EFFORT TO BAN RESEARCH USING FETAL TISSUE FROM ABORTIONS

‘Protecting Life and Integrity in Research Act’ Would Stop the Use of Taxpayer Funding for Research Using Body Parts of Aborted Children

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), chair of the Senate Pro-Life Caucus, today jumpstarted her goal to end federal support for research involving fetal tissue obtained from abortions and to outlaw trafficking of the body parts of aborted children.

Hyde-Smith...

HYDE-SMITH CHIDES DEMS OVER TITLE IX FILIBUSTER, HYPOCRISY AT TRUMP SPEECH

HYDE-SMITH CHIDES DEMS OVER TITLE IX FILIBUSTER, HYPOCRISY AT TRUMP SPEECH

In Speech, Miss. Senator Vows to Continue Fight to Protect Women, Girls in Sports

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VIDEO:  Senator Hyde-Smith Vows to Continue Fight to Ensure Title IX Protections for Women and Girls in Sports.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today chided opponents of legislation to ensure Title IX protections for women and girls in sports, and committed to continuing the fight to pass the bill despite a...

Bill Would Allow 3-Day Evictions in Federal Subsidized Housing

Rental Housing Journal

Bill Would Allow 3-Day Evictions in Federal Subsidized Housing

By John Triplett

Federal lawmakers have introduced a bill to allow landlords to give tenants in federal subsidized housing 3-day eviction notice, according to reports.

Landlords had been required to give 30...

Texas lawyer to head agriculture department

American Veterinary Medical Association

Texas lawyer to head agriculture department

February 14, 2025

Brooke Rollins will become the 33rd U.S. secretary of agriculture. The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick to head the Department of Agriculture (USDA) on February 13 by a vote of 72...

HYDE-SMITH INTRODUCES ‘SAFER SHRIMP IMPORTS ACT’

HYDE-SMITH INTRODUCES ‘SAFER SHRIMP IMPORTS ACT’ 

Legislation Fits President’s MAHA Goals with Stricter FDA Inspection Requirements of Shrimp Imports

WASHINGTON, D.C. – With 90 percent Americans’ shrimp consumption coming from foreign sources, U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) has introduced legislation to ensure the quality of imported shrimp and significantly strengthen federal inspection standards of those imports.

The Safer Shrimp Imports Act (S.667) would require overseas shrimp...