News Mississippi
VA reform bill heads to Trump’s desk
By Alex Paton
A bill is headed to President Trump’s desk that will improve veterans’ health care by removing barriers that keep veterans from receiving care closer to home.
U.S. Senators Cindy Hyde-Smith and Roger Wicker voted with the Senate...
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Tupelo
SID SALTER: Rand’s ‘Penny Plan’ was more political theatrics than honest fiscal policy proposal
By Sid Salter
Federal Social Security and Medicare entitlements as they exist today are in deep trouble and can’t sustain themselves under current law while...
Clarion-Ledger, Jackson
Evers home first Mississippi civil rights site declared landmark
By Jerry Mitchell
The house where Medgar and Myrlie Evers lived with their family will receive a plaque Thursday recognizing its National Historic Landmark Designation.
The Medgar and Myrlie Evers House is...
WAPT-TV Jackson
Bill to designate Medgar Evers home national monument introduced
By Adam McWilliams
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi senators Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith introduced a bill Monday that would make the home of slain civil rights icon Medgar Evers a national monument and would make...
MedPage Today
NIH Funding Needs to Keep Rising, Senators Say
By Joyce Frieden
WASHINGTON -- Federal funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) needs to continue going up, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), chairman of the Senate committee that reviews the agency's funding, said Thursday.
"Both...
Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Mississippi Leaders On Jerusalem Embassy Opening
By Ezra Wall
Mississippi's Congressional Delegation is responding to the opening of the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. MPB's Ezra Wall reports.
Mississippi's newest U.S. Senator calls Jerusalem "the cultural and...
News Mississippi
Wicker, Hyde-Smith honor Mississippi’s fallen officers
By Alex Paton
U.S. Senators Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith recognized National Police Week by offering tributes to three Mississippi law enforcement officers who lost their lives in the line of duty.
National Police Week...
Redstone Rocket
Light helicopter increases Army’s capabilities
By Program Executive Office for Aviation
Members of the Program Executive Office for Aviation traveled to the Airbus Helicopters production facility in Columbus, Mississippi, to accept delivery of the 413th UH-72A Lakota Light Utility...
NewsMS.fm
Senator Hyde-Smith talks rural healthcare in Mississippi
By Alex Paton
U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith participated in a Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee hearing this week to question Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar...
SuperTalk Mississippi
Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith on @TheJTShow
Senator Cindy-Hyde Smith joined the JT Show to discuss her first couple months of work in Washington, to share her thoughts on Trump pulling out of the “Iran Deal”, and to catch up with JT for the first time since Governor Phil Bryant...
