Southwest Region

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 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...