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WICKER, HYDE-SMITH JOIN FIGHT AGAINST VA-FUNDED ABORTIONS

Miss. Senators Join Bicameral Effort to Overturn Illegal Rule

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) joined more than 65 colleagues in introducing a bicameral joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to nullify an illegal U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) rule that provides abortion services through the taxpayer-funded VA health care system. 

The CRA...

HYDE-SMITH, COLLEAGUES INTRODUCE CONSTITUTIONAL BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT

Under Looming Debt Ceiling Fight, 23 Cosponsors Join Miss. Senator in Renewed Push to Amend the U.S. Constitution to Force Annual Balanced Federal Budgets, Fight Debt

 
VIDEO:  Hyde-Smith Discusses Why the U.S. Needs a Constitutional Balanced Budget Amendment.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – With a looming battle over the nation’s debt and borrowing authority, U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) with 23 cosponsors has introduced...

HYDE-SMITH WORKING TO GET CATFISH PRODUCERS DISASTER ASSISTANCE WRITTEN INTO 2023 FARM BILL

Senator, USDA Officials Agree Existing Loss Relief Programs Must Change to Address Bird Depredation

 
VIDEO:  Senator Hyde-Smith Addresses ELAP Inadequacies at 2023 Farm Bill Hearing.
VIDEO:  Senator Hyde-Smith’s Exchange with USDA Witnesses.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) on Thursday received commitments from U.S. Department of Agriculture officials to work with her on...

HYDE-SMITH REINTRODUCES WOMEN’S BILL OF RIGHTS

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today reintroduced a resolution to establish a Women’s Bill of Rights to affirm legal protections afforded to women under federal law.

Hyde-Smith’s resolution and a companion measure introduced Thursday by U.S. Representative Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.) asserts that a women’s bill of rights is warranted given “recent misguided rulings relating to the definition of ‘sex’ have led to the...

HYDE-SMITH STATEMENT ON THE STATE OF THE UNION

Blames Biden for Dissatisfaction among Americans, Says Change of Course Needed to Restore Sense of Security Expected by Citizens

VIDEO:  Senator Hyde-Smith Statement on the State of the Union.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), in response to President Biden’s second State of the Union address, tonight said there are solid reasons why the American people are expressing dissatisfaction with their current situation—all of...

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH CONTEST BIDEN’S STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS PLAN IN AMICUS BRIEF TO SUPREME COURT

Miss. Senators Among 43 Republicans Supporting Constitutional Challenges to Loan Forgiveness Play 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) are among 43 Republican Senators who filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States, supporting respondents in the dual Supreme Court cases challenging Biden’s student-loan debt relief program...

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH & COLLEAGUES CHALLENGE BIDEN WOTUS RULE 

Republican Senators Oppose Massive Government Overreach by Biden’s EPA

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) have joined all of their Republican colleagues in introducing a formal challenge to the Biden administration’s Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule through a Congressional Review Act (CRA) joint resolution of disapproval.

S.J.Res.7 was introduced in response to a new WOTUS...

MISS. SENATORS JOIN CHALLENGE TO BIDEN RULE POLITICIZING AMERICANS’ 401(k)s 

Wicker, Hyde-Smith Seek to Overturn Rule that Encourages Retirement Investments Based on Biden’s Woke Ideological Preferences

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) this week moved to prevent the Biden administration from enforcing a rule that would encourage fiduciaries to support progressive environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) priorities over seeking...

HYDE-SMITH JOINS TIM SCOTT’S BILL TO PROTECT PARENTAL RIGHTS, COMBAT INDOCTRINATION IN SCHOOLS

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today announced she is cosponsoring U.S. Senator Tim Scott’s legislation to protect parental rights and prevent school administrators from concealing information about students’ gender from their parents.

The Parental Rights Over the Education and Care of Their (PROTECT) Kids Act (S.200) would restrict federal funding for any elementary or...

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH, COLLEAGUES DEFEND NATIONAL SECOND AMENDMENT PROTECTIONS 

Constitutional Concealed-Carry Reciprocity Bill Reintroduced with 45 Senate Sponsors

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today joined U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-Texas), and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) in reintroducing the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act.

The legislation would allow individuals with concealed carry privileges in their home state to...