Senator Hyde-Smith supports common-sense, patient-centered health care reforms to help Mississippi families afford health insurance coverage without expanding the government’s role in providing health care. She believes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, should be repealed.
Senator Hyde-Smith appreciates the role of the state’s universities to support federal research on better prevention and treatment efforts on chronic diseases, like diabetes, that affect Mississippians disproportionally.
HYDE-SMITH MEETS NEW VA SEC. ROBERT WILKIE
HYDE-SMITH MEETS NEW VA SEC. ROBERT WILKIE
Senator Commits to Helping Secretary Wilkie Improve VA Services for Veterans
PHOTO: VA Secretary Robert Wilkie and Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith discuss veterans care, Mississippi links.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today said she looks forward to working with Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Robert Wilkie, who she met with only a day after he was sworn into office.
Hyde-Smith supported Wilkie’s confirmation...
HYDE-SMITH VOTES TO FUND WORKFORCE TRAINING, RURAL HEALTH & OPIOID ABUSE PREVENTION
HYDE-SMITH VOTES TO FUND WORKFORCE TRAINING, RURAL HEALTH & OPIOID ABUSE PREVENTION
Senate Committee Approves FY2019 Labor, HHS & Education Appropriations Bill
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today supported committee passage of an appropriations bill that will boost workforce training programs, rural health initiatives, and opioid treatment and prevention.
The FY2019 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (Labor-HHS) Appropriations Bill was approved, 30...
KEEPING PROMISES TO VETERANS
KEEPING PROMISES TO VETERANS
By U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.)
Generations of American men and women have served our country in the Armed Forces and sacrificed to protect our freedoms. In gratitude, promises are made to them that the federal government has sometimes failed to keep like it should. This is a problem I'm committed to working to improve so veterans and their families get the benefits they earned through their service.
The responsibility for keeping our commitments...
Capito, GOP colleagues send letter to FBI and ATF on Firearms Background Check System during Coronavirus Pandemic
Buckhannon (W.Va.) Record Delta
Capito, GOP colleagues send letter to FBI and ATF on Firearms Background Check System during Coronavirus Pandemic
Posted May 5, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) sent a letter today to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director...
USDA announces $470m in food purchases
Feedstuffs
USDA announces $470m in food purchases
Purchases included $120 million in dairy products, $30 million each in pork products, chicken, and catfish products and $50 million in turkey products.
By Jacqui Fatka
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced Monday details of $470...
Telehealth’s expansion may be here to stay
Roll Call
Telehealth’s expansion may be here to stay
VIDEO
By Gopal Ratnam and Jinitzail Hernandez
As thousands of patients struck by COVID-19 rushed to seek treatment in overcrowded New York City hospitals, intensive care specialists more than 350 miles away at the University of Pittsburgh...