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HYDE-SMITH, COMMITTEE REVIEW BIDEN FUNDING REQUEST FOR ISRAEL, UKRAINE WAR EFFORTS 

 
VIDEO:  Senator Hyde-Smith Questions Efforts to Counter Iran as Agent of Terrorism.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), at a hearing to review President Biden’s request for supplemental funding to support Israel and Ukraine, today sought details on the administration actions to curtail Iran’s “puppet master” role in funding, equipping, and training terrorist groups like Hamas.

The...

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH PRAISE $8.7 MILLION INVESTMENT IN PORT OF ROSEDALE

Miss. Senators Welcome Resources to Increase Capacity at Mississippi Delta Port

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today celebrated an $8.7 million U.S. Department of Transportation grant to improve infrastructure at the Port of Rosedale.

The grant was issued by the Maritime Administration through the Port Infrastructure Development Program.

“This is great news for...

MISS. DELEGATION:  MEDGAR EVERS DESERVES PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), and U.S. Representatives Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), Trent Kelly (R-Miss.), Michael Guest (R-Miss.), and Mike Ezell (R-Miss.) today sent a letter to President Biden urging him to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to civil rights leader Medgar Wiley Evers. 

Evers was assassinated outside his home in Jackson on June 12...

HYDE-SMITH SAYS GULF OIL & GAS PRODUCTION TARGETED BY LEASE SALE PLAN, RICE’S WHALE HABITAT DECISIONS

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) used a recent hearing on the Biden administration’s policies to further expose a concerted effort to make Gulf of Mexico oil and natural gas production prohibitive, including limiting lease sales and imposing a restrictive critical habitat designation for the Rice’s whales.

Hyde-Smith made her argument during a Senate Energy and...

HYDE-SMITH SIGNS ONTO ANTI-CARBON TAX RESOLUTION

Levying Global Warming Tax Would Penalize Workers by Undercutting Domestic Energy, Manufacturing

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today cosponsored a resolution in opposition of a carbon tax on the basis that it would ultimately penalize American workers by undercutting domestic energy production and manufacturing.

The anti-carbon tax resolution, authored by U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.), also encourages...

HYDE-SMITH JOINS LETTER ASKING DHS, FBI TO PRIORITIZE ANTISEMITIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION

Members of Bipartisan Task Forces for Combating Antisemitism Call for Greater Protection of Jewish Americans, Religious Institutions & Organizations

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today signed a bipartisan, bicameral letter seeking greater resources and federal coordination to help protect the safety and security of Jewish Americans, religious institutions and organizations as acts...

HYDE-SMITH COSPONSORS RESOLUTION CALLING ON BIDEN TO REJOIN THE GENEVA CONSENSUS DECLARATION

Resolution Reinforces American Values of Life, Family, National Sovereignty

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.)today joined U.S. Senator Steve Daines (R-Mont.) in introducing a resolution that urges President Biden to re-add the United States as a signatory of the Geneva Consensus Declaration (GCD).

Signed three years ago today, the GCD is a landmark international agreement that...

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH BACK BILL TO SLAM BRAKES ON RADICAL BIDEN ELECTRIC VEHICLE MANDATE

Miss. Senators Cosponsor CARS Act to Stop EPA Rule and Protect Consumer Choice

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) are cosponsoring legislation to slam the brakes on a sweeping tailpipe emissions rule and other Biden administration regulations that seek to limit consumer vehicle choice and push American drivers to buy pricey electric vehicles (EVs).

Wicker...

OFFICE OF SEN. HYDE-SMITH STATEMENT REGARDING SUNDAY SHOOTING INCIDENT

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today issued the following statement regarding an incident that occurred at the Senator’s home in Brookhaven on Sunday, October 22:

“An incident involving a shooting occurred near the home of Senator Hyde-Smith early Sunday afternoon.  The Senator and her family were not harmed.  Senator Hyde-Smith is grateful for the concern shown by many and the good...

HYDE-SMITH, COLLEAGUES OPPOSE BIDEN’S ‘DON’T SAY DAD’ RULE

Senators Ask Biden HHS to Drop Rule to Erase ‘Father’ & ‘Mother’ from Child Support Enforcement Program 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) has asked President Biden to rescind a proposed “Don’t Say Dad” rule and to stop attempting to erase biological sex from federal law.

Hyde-Smith on Thursday signed a letter to Biden that lambasts a rule proposed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to...