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Markey, Booker, Jackson Lee & Others Re-introduce Legislation to Make Juneteenth a National Holiday
By Fisher Jack
Washington – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), and Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Representative Shirley Jackson Lee (TX-18) today re-introduced the...
Roll Call
Granholm confirmed for Energy with 14 GOP votes
‘She created new jobs, leaving no worker behind,’ said West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin III, whose state has lost thousands of coal mining jobs
By Benjamin J. Hulac
The Senate confirmed Jennifer Granholm, a former two-term governor of...
Environment and Energy News
Deb Haaland's last chance to win over Republicans
Emma Dumain, E&E News reporter
Rep. Deb Haaland will be subjected this morning to a second round of questioning by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee — a continuation of her confirmation hearing that...
WDAM-TV Hattiesburg
Petal student chosen to represent state at 59th U.S. Senate Youth Program
By WDAM Staff
PETAL, Miss. (WDAM) - A Petal student is one of two Mississippi youth chosen to represent the state in the 59th annual United States Senate Youth Program.
U.S. Senators Roger Wicker and...
Washington Post
Hearing for Haaland, first Native American pick to run Interior Dept., focuses on fossil fuels
Leaders of the Senate Energy Committee, both from oil-producing states, grilled Deb Haaland on Biden’s opposition to new drilling leases on federal land
By Darryl Fears
The Senate...
WJTV-TV Jackson
Contract awarded to provide food to military installations in Mississippi and Louisiana
NEWS
WASHINGTON (WJTV) – On Monday, U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) announced a $86.1 million Defense Logistics Agency contract to Merchants Foodservice in Jackson to provide food to...
Laurel Leader-Call
Record number of women in legislatures across nation
By Rebekah Staples
“Anything you can do, I can do better; I can do anything better than you.”
Some of you may recall these playful lyrics from the musical “Annie Get Your Gun.” In the show, sharpshooters Annie Oakley and...
Correo Diplomatico Saharaui
Inhofe and Leahy at the head of 25 colleagues to urge Biden to reverse Western Sahara's wrong decision
February 18, 2021
U.S. Senators Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) And Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Today led 25 of their Senate colleagues in sending a letter urging President Biden to...
WLBT-TV Jackson
Hyde-Smith joins bill ensuring sports teams are based on ‘reproductive biology’
By Josh Carter
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith has co-signed a bill that she says would “protect athletic opportunities for female athletes.”
The Protection of Women and Girls in...
Meridian Star
Key Field in line for pandemic funds
By Bill Graham
U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., have announced $11.6 million in grants to 63 Mississippi airfields experiencing economic disruption because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The awards were funded in...
