Pine Belt Region

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 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...

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...