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WICKER, HYDE-SMITH URGE FEMA TO DELAY FLOOD INSURANCE CHANGES THAT WOULD RAISE PREMIUMS

Nearly 8-in-10 NFIP Policyholders Face Premium Increases, Prompting Concerns 20% Could Drop Coverage

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today strongly encouraged the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to delay a new flood insurance rating system that will raise premiums on a majority of policyholders.

Wicker and Hyde-Smith signed a bipartisan...

HYDE-SMITH WELCOMES FOREST RAYTHEON CAMPUS ROLE IN CONTRACT TO SUPPORT CANADIAN AIRCRAFT UPGRADES

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today welcomed the award of a U.S. Navy contract that will allow workers at the Raytheon campus in Forest to continue radar integration on aircraft deployed by the government of Canada.

The Raytheon campus in Forest will carry out more than 40 percent of a $140.3 million contract modification for procurement of radar systems to incorporate...

HYDE-SMITH SEEKS COMMITMENT INTERIOR DEPT. RULES WON’T MAKE OFFSHORE ENERGY PRODUCTION UNFEASIBLE

Miss. Senator Presses Land and Minerals Management Nominee on Compliance with Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act

VIDEO:  Senator Hyde-Smith Questions Administration Compliance with Offshore Energy Law.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today sought assurances that the Biden administration, now under court order to allow offshore energy leasing, will not attempt to impose...

HYDE-SMITH COSPONSORS BILL TO HONOR 13 AMERICAN HEROES KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN

Miss. Senator Promotes Bipartisan Effort to Award Congressional Gold Medals to Fallen U.S. Servicemembers

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) is an original cosponsor of legislation to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 13 American servicemembers who lost their lives last month during a terrorist attack in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Hyde-Smith is among the 35 original sponsors of S.2756, a...

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH DEMAND GOOGLE STOP SILENCING PRO-LIFE VIEWS, REVERSE UNJUST CENSORSHIP 

Miss. Senators Sign Letter Seeking Reversal of Google Ban on Pro-Life Ads 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today joined colleagues in demanding Google reverse its decision to ban pro-life advertisements.

The Mississippi Senators are among 11 lawmakers who signed a letter that also asks Google CEO Sundar Pichai to justify Google’s double standard in...