Senator Hyde-Smith believes the Unites States is strong when agriculture and rural America are strong. The Senator understands the unique challenges faced by rural Mississippi to provide residents with basic services, infrastructure, education, and health care. She supports policies that will allow rural communities to expand economically. The federal government should not be a roadblock to the growth and wellbeing of rural America.
Gonzales (La.) Weekly Citizen
Sen. Kennedy: EPA actions would hurt Louisiana's small refineries, raise gas prices
Staff Report
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) joined Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) in pushing Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael S. Regan into reconsidering two...
Mississippi Press
Gautier gets $2.77 million for water improvements
By Warren Kulo
GAUTIER, Mississippi -- The 2022 federal appropriations package signed into law March 11 includes nearly $3 million in funding for the City of Gautier to make improvements to its water systems.
The $2.77 million...
Brookhaven Daily Leader
Hyde-Smith, Wicker cosponsor bill to empower nation’s workforce
By Daily Leader Staff
U.S. Senators Cindy Hyde-Smith, of Brookhaven, and Roger Wicker — both R-Miss. — have cosponsored the Employee Rights Act of 2022.
This legislation would protect workers and small...
DeSoto County News
Murphy to take flight as an Air Force Academy cadet
By Bob Bakken
When the Class of 2022 at Lewisburg High School receives their diplomas later this spring, the many students will take and fly off in definite directions as they pursue their future plans, whether it be college...
WGN-TV Chicago/Nexstar
Illinois senator proposes requiring oil companies to keep prices down
By Raquel Martin
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — With Americans paying more at the pump, Democrats and Republicans can’t agree on the root of the problem and therefore aren’t on the same page about solutions.
D...
McKnights Senior Living
Employee Rights Act of 2022 meant to give workers, business owners ‘stability and flexibility’
By Kathleen Steele Gaivin
An updated version of the existing Employee Rights Act is meant to protect independent contractors, franchisees, entrepreneurs and anyone seeking...
Vicksburg Daily News
MS senators call for National Women in Agriculture Day
March 24, 2022
By Staff Reports
As part of Women’s History Month and National Agriculture Week, U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) cosponsored a bipartisan resolution to designate Mar. 24...
Sun Herald, Biloxi
With questions for FEMA, MS senators fight to halt April flood insurance hike. Here’s how.
By Gautama Mehta
Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith today introduced a bill to protect homeowners from flood insurance rate hikes resulting from a planned overhaul of the National Flood...
Florida Daily
Marco Rubio Backs Cindy Hyde Smith’s Homeowner Flood Insurance Transparency and Protection Act
By Kevin Derby
This week, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., threw his support behind U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s, R-Miss., “Homeowner Flood Insurance Transparency and Protection Act.”
Rubio...
WXXV-TV Gulfport
Bill aims to protect flood insurance policy holders from rate hike
WXXV Staff
Today, U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith introduced a bill to protect flood insurance policyholders.
On Friday, a new rate structure for the National Flood Insurance Program takes effect.
For many people...
