Vicksburg Daily News
MS senators call for National Women in Agriculture Day
March 24, 2022
By Staff Reports
As part of Women’s History Month and National Agriculture Week, U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) cosponsored a bipartisan resolution to designate Mar. 24...
Sun Herald, Biloxi
With questions for FEMA, MS senators fight to halt April flood insurance hike. Here’s how.
By Gautama Mehta
Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith today introduced a bill to protect homeowners from flood insurance rate hikes resulting from a planned overhaul of the National Flood...
Florida Daily
Marco Rubio Backs Cindy Hyde Smith’s Homeowner Flood Insurance Transparency and Protection Act
By Kevin Derby
This week, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., threw his support behind U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s, R-Miss., “Homeowner Flood Insurance Transparency and Protection Act.”
Rubio...
WXXV-TV Gulfport
Bill aims to protect flood insurance policy holders from rate hike
WXXV Staff
Today, U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith introduced a bill to protect flood insurance policyholders.
On Friday, a new rate structure for the National Flood Insurance Program takes effect.
For many people...
WJTV-TV Jackson
$1.2M grant to support Mississippi manufacturing
By Biancca Ball
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – On Thursday, U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) announced a $1.2 million Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) grant for a Mississippi Manufacturers Association (MMA) program. The...
Y’all Politics
U.S. Senate passes resolution condemning bomb threats against HBCU
By Sarah Ulmer - March 8, 2022
The United States Senate passed a bipartisan resolution that condemned the bomb threats at Historically Black Colleges and Universities across the country in February and reaffirmed...
Y’all Politics
Members of Mississippi Delegation call for increased U.S. oil production as Russian oil imports no longer welcome
By Sarah Ulmer
President Joe Biden has announced new sanctions on Russia amid the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
As of Tuesday morning, the United States, through Biden...
My Chester County (Pa.)
Toomey, Romney Press White House for Accounting of Trillions in COVID-19 Spending
By MyChesCo
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Senators Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Mitt Romney (R-Utah) today wrote President Biden requesting an accounting of how the federal government has allocated...
Meridian Star
State delegation responds to State of the Union
By Thomas Howard
Mississippi representatives and senators weighed in after President Joe Biden delivered his first State of the Union address Tuesday.
In a statement, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith criticized Biden’s address as “rhetoric” and...
Y’all Politics
States follow in Mississippi’s footsteps with proposals for 15-week abortion ban
By Sarah Ulmer
In 2018, Mississippi passed a bill to ban abortions after 15 weeks. After being contested in local courts, arguments were heard before the U.S. Supreme Court in December 2021. A ruling...
