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HYDE-SMITH COSPONSORS LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING & ACCOUNTABILITY REFORM BILL

JUSTICE Act Focuses on Safer Communities through Better Training, Accountability & Transparency

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today cosponsored a major reform package intended to improve community safety through police training reforms and greater law enforcement accountability.

Hyde-Smith signed as an original cosponsor of the JUSTICE Act, reform legislation introduced by Senator Tim...

WICKER, COONS, HYDE-SMITH UNVEIL BILL TO EXPAND NATIONAL SERVICE AMID PANDEMIC

Additional Service Corps Members Would Support COVID-19 Response and Recovery

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), and colleagues today helped introduce bipartisan legislation to expand national service programs significantly to help the country respond to and recover from COVID-19.

The Cultivating Opportunity and Response to the Pandemic through...

MISS. SENATORS URGE TREASURY, SBA TO REDUCE PAPERWORK FOR BUSINESSES WITH SMALLER PPP LOANS

Wicker, Hyde-Smith Sign Letter Contending 11-page PPP Loan Forgiveness Application Burdens Small Business Owners

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) signed a letter that advocates easing paperwork requirements for small businesses seeking loan forgiveness under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).

The Mississippi Senators are among a bipartisan group...

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH WELCOME NOMINATION OF TAYLOR McNEEL

President Trump Selects Pascagoula Lawyer as Judge for Southern District of Mississippi 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today welcomed President Donald J. Trump’s nomination of Taylor McNeel of Pascagoula to serve as a U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Mississippi.

Wicker and Hyde-Smith recommended McNeel to the President for this nomination.

“Taylor McNeel will make a...

MISS. SENATORS ANNOUNCE $71.46 MILLION GRANT FOR GREENVILLE FREIGHT CORRIDOR PROJECT

U.S. Dept. of Transportation Grant Would Reduce Congestion in Downtown Greenville, Expedite Freight Travel

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today announced the award of $71,460,000 from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to construct 15.6 miles of the Greenville Bypass Freight Corridor, which will complete a U.S. 82 bypass from near the Greenville...

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH CELEBRATE COMMITTEE APPROVAL OF CORY WILSON TO SERVE ON FIFTH CIRCUIT

Nomination of Mississippian Selected by Trump for Federal Bench Heads to the Senate Floor

Mississippi Court of Appeals Judge Cory T. Wilson

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., today hailed committee approval of the nomination of Mississippi Court of Appeals Judge Cory T. Wilson to be a U.S. Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

The...

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH COMMEND $219 MILLION AWARD FOR MISSISSIPPI HOSPITALS

COVID-19 Relief Funds Will Support ‘Safety Net’ Hospitals 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today commended today commended the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) award of $219,200,279 in Provider Relief Funds to Mississippi hospitals.

The funds are intended to help “safety net” hospitals that serve a disproportionate number of Medicaid patients or...

HYDE-SMITH COSPONSORS RURAL HOSPITAL CLOSURE RELIEF ACT

Expanding Critical Access Hospital Status to More Rural Hospitals Would Increase Medicare Payment Support

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today announced her support for legislation to help financially vulnerable rural hospitals keep their doors open by expanding eligibility to higher Medicare payments.

Hyde-Smith is cosponsored the Rural Hospital Closure Relief Act (S.3103), which would update Medicare...

HYDE-SMITH:  MISS. SMALL BUSINESSES CAN USE NEW PPP LOAN FLEXIBILITY

President Trump Signs Bill Increasing Flexibility of the Paycheck Protection Program

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today said she expects Mississippi businesses to take advantage of reforms to the successful Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was created in the CARES Act to help small businesses survive the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

President Trump on Friday...

HYDE-SMITH CELEBRATES THE IMPORTANCE OF JONES ACT TO MISS. SHIPBUILDING, ECONOMY

June 5th is 100th Anniversary of Jones Act Establishing Preeminence of U.S Domestic Maritime Activities

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Jones Act, a pivotal law that has buttressed shipbuilding as a major employer in Mississippi.

To commemorate the centennial milestone of the law, Hyde-Smith noted that Mississippi ranks second nationally in...