WICKER, HYDE-SMITH ANNOUNCE $5.17 MILLION IN GRANTS FOR MISSISSIPPI FIRE DEPARTMENTS

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH ANNOUNCE $5.17 MILLION IN GRANTS FOR MISSISSIPPI FIRE DEPARTMENTS

Large Grants for Jackson, Canton to Support Hiring of More Firefighters

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today announced the award of $5,172,039.58 in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grants to fire departments in Jackson, Canton, Walls, Grenada, Iuka, Columbus, Pascagoula, Laurel, Puckett, Biloxi, New Site, Sandersville, and Utica.

The funding...

HYDE-SMITH PRAISES EPA ACTION TO REPEAL OBAMA’S WATERS OF THE U.S. RULE

HYDE-SMITH PRAISES EPA ACTION TO REPEAL OBAMA’S WATERS OF THE U.S. RULE

EPA & Army Corps Agree to Restore Rightful Regulatory Scope of “Navigable Waters”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today praised action by the Trump administration to overturn President Obama’s overreaching 2015 Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule.

The EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Thursday announced a two-step rulemaking process to repeal the Obama administration’s unlawful...

HYDE-SMITH SECURES FUNDING SUPPORT TO ADDRESS ARMY CORPS PROJECTS AFFECTING MISSISSIPPI

HYDE-SMITH SECURES FUNDING SUPPORT TO ADDRESS ARMY CORPS PROJECTS AFFECTING MISSISSIPPI

FY2020 Energy & Water Development Appropriations Bill Cleared for Senate Consideration

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today voted for committee passage of an appropriations measure that will provide the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with resources to improve and maintain flood control projects, ports, and waterways in Mississippi.

Hyde-Smith supported Senate Appropriations...

COVID-19 relief funds designated for hospitals

WTOK-TV Meridian

COVID-19 relief funds designated for hospitals

By WTOK Staff

WASHINGTON (WTOK) - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded over $219 million in Provider Relief Funds to Mississippi hospitals. The funds are intended to help “safety net” hospitals that serve a...

FCC Grant Gives Boost To Center For Telehealth’s COVID-19 Care

Choctaw Plaindealer

FCC Grant Gives Boost To Center For Telehealth’s COVID-19 Care

By Submitted

JACKSON, Miss. – The Center for Telehealth at the University of Mississippi Medical Center is using a $1 million federal grant to speed expansion of services to meet the changing needs of patients...

Hyde-Smith Cosponsors Rural Hospital Closure Relief Act

Indianola Enterprise-Tocsin

Hyde-Smith Cosponsors Rural Hospital Closure Relief Act

TUE, 06/09/2020

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...