Infrastructure & Public Works

HYDE-SMITH REGISTERS OPPOSITION TO NLRB MOVE TO RECLASSIFY INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS

Signs Amicus Brief Against Backdoor Effort to Implement Failed PRO Act Provisions

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today announced she is among a dozen Senators voicing opposition to a backdoor effort by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to use regulatory changes to reclassify millions of independent contractors as employees.

Hyde-Smith signed an amicus brief to the NLRB...

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH TAKE UP FIGHT TO STOP BIDEN-OBAMA WOTUS RULE
 
Senate Republicans Unite to Call for Halt to EPA/USACE Rulemaking until Supreme Court Decision 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), as part of a united Senate Republican Conference, are urging two federal agencies to suspend a pending rulemaking the jurisdictional definition of “waters of the United States” (WOTUS), until the U.S. Supreme Court completes consideration of a case...

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH SIGNAL SUPPORT FOR SCOTUS CASE CHALLENGING EPA CLEAN AIR ACT OVERREACH

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) are among 47 Senate colleagues and 44 House members who joined an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the petitioners, including the state of Mississippi, in the pending case West Virginia, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency. 

In this case challenging overreaching Environmental Protection...