News Releases

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH COSPONSOR BILL TO EMPOWER AMERICA’S WORKFORCE 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today cosponsored the Employee Rights Act of 2022, legislation that would protect workers and small businesses from the pro-labor union tactics advanced by the Biden administration.

The bill would update and modernize the Employee Rights Act to protect independent contractors, franchisees, entrepreneurs, and anyone seeking flexible work...

HYDE-SMITH, COLLEAGUES FILE AMICUS BRIEF SUPPORTING WORKERS DENIED RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS FROM COVID VACCINE MANDATES

Senators Support a Full Supreme Court Review of Case Regarding Protecting Constitutional Religious Liberties

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today joined 10 colleagues in filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of protecting religious liberties in a case challenging the lack of religious exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate...

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH & COLLEAGUES MOVE TO STOP FEDERAL FUNDING FOR ABORTIONS

Miss. Senators Join Resolution to Overturn Biden Administration Final Rule on Title X 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) have joined 29 Republican colleagues in a Congressional Review Act (CRA) challenge to overturn the Biden administration’s 2021 Final Rule on the Title X Family Planning Program, which permits abortion providers like Planned Parenthood to receive...

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH APPLAUD $1.49 MILLION GRANT FOR VIRTUAL REALITY JOB TRAINING INITIATIVE

Appalachian Regional Commission Grant to MSU Will Benefit Youth in Five East Mississippi Counties 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today applauded the award of a $1.49 million grant for Mississippi State University (MSU) to broaden virtual reality workforce training in five East Mississippi counties.

The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) awarded...

HYDE-SMITH, COLLEAGUES DEMAND ANSWERS ON ‘OPEN-BORDERS’  EFFECT ON VIOLENT CRIME RATES

In Letter to DHS Secretary, 22 Senators Push to Overturn Enforcement Guidance Regarding Illegal Immigrants in the U.S.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), who serves on the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, is among a group of Senators raising concerns about recent violent crimes committed by illegal aliens who crossed into the United States under President Biden’s...

HYDE-SMITH BACKS BILL TO HELP THOSE HURT BY COVID-19 VACCINES

Measure Would Fix Federal Compensation Program that Hasn’t Approved a Single COVID Compensation Claim

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) has joined U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) in introducing legislation to help individuals who have suffered adverse reactions from the COVID-19 vaccines.

The Countermeasure Injury Compensation Amendment Act (S.3810) would amend the federal statute that authorized the...

MISS. SENATORS INTRODUCE BILL TO IMPROVE TORNADO FORECASTING FOLLOWING DEVASTATING OUTBREAK 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), along with U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), John Thune (R-S.D.), and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), today introduced the Tornado Observation Research Notification and Deployment to Operations (TORNADO) Act to improve the forecasting and understanding of tornadoes and other hazardous weather. 

The TORNADO Act (S.3817)...

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH STAND AGAINST POTENTIAL IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL 

Miss. Senators, Colleagues Pledge to Block Any Revised Plan that Fails to Block Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Capability

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) are among 49 Republican Senators who have issued a statement informing the Biden administration they will not support the revived Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran, which would reportedly weaken sanctions and lessen...

UPDATE: SENATE APPROVES BILL COSPONSORED BY HYDE-SMITH TO MAKE DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME PERMANENT

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) is pleased to announce unanimous Senate approval of S.623, the Sunshine Protection Act.  Hyde-Smith is an original cosponsor of this legislation to make Daylight Saving Time the new, permanent standard time. 

The Senate-passed bill, which still requires House passage and the President’s signature, would delay implementation until Nov. 20, 2023...

HYDE-SMITH, COLLEAGUES TARGET ATF ‘SECRET GUIDANCE’ THREAT TO SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) and 19 of her colleagues are demanding that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) disclose details of its use of secret internal guidance to enforce regulations that are not openly published and could threaten constitutional Second Amendment rights.

The lawmakers detailed their concerns in a letter to Attorney General Merrick...