Senator Hyde-Smith, a cattle farmer and the former Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce, understands the importance of the state’s $7.5 billion agricultural and forestry industries. As a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, the Senator will work on legislation, programs, and policies to allow agriculture and related industries to grow in Mississippi and the nation.
The Senator’s record includes protecting private property rights against eminent domain abuses, helping to open foreign markets for Mississippi agricultural products, and supporting country-of-origin labeling.
Market Screener
Support Grows for Cattle Market Agreement
11/18/2021 | 12:53pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) are announcing growing support for the Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act.
The...
Natchez Democrat
Goals and projects for 2022 on the horizon
By Dan Gibson – From the Mayor’s Desk
It’s hard to believe we are about to enter the last several weeks of 2021! Over the past few days, I have been evaluating the progress we have made toward the Natchez Renewal this year, and I am now...
Ag Wired
Animal Ag News 11/22
By Carrie Muehling
US Representatives Cindy Axne (IA-03) and Randy Feenstra (IA-04) – both members of the House Agriculture Committee – led the introduction of bipartisan legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives that will return fairness to the cattle...
Delta News TV
Yazoo Backwater Project
Nov 24, 2021
After nearly 12 years, the Yazoo Backwater project was finally approved by the EPA last year in 2020. The Army Core of Engineers along with state and federal representatives had been working to develop a new project since the 2008 veto.
Peter...
WDAM-TV Hattiesburg
Hyde-Smith: ‘Build Back Broke bill is what I call it’
By Caroline Wood
PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - Mississippi leaders are speaking out about the Biden Administration’s ‘Build Back Better’ bill.
The House passed the ‘Build Back Better’ bill Friday. Now, it heads to the Senate.
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Y’all Politics
As Congress returns from Thanksgiving recess, lawmakers face a packed Democrat-led agenda
Urgent deadlines and major issues loom large for Congressional consideration.
By Anne Summerhays
Congressional lawmakers return from Thanksgiving recess today, with plans to discuss and vote...
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...
WICKER, HYDE-SMITH WELCOME $13 MILLION FOR INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS ACROSS MISSISSIPPI
USDA Rural Development Funds Projects in Jasper, Monroe, Pontotoc, Quitman, Oktibbeha & Tate Counties
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today welcomed the award of more than $13 million in U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) grants and low-interest loans to support water and broadband infrastructure improvements in six Mississippi communities.
USDA...
HYDE-SMITH VOTES AGAINST VEHICLE FOR DEBT LIMIT INCREASE
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today issued the following statement regarding her vote Thursday against the Senate proceeding to legislation allowing rules changes to facilitate expedited consideration of a measure to raise the nation’s debt limit:
“I vowed this summer not to help the Democrats raise the debt limit, and I’m holding fast to that commitment not to vote to increase the debt ceiling. The nation...
HYDE-SMITH REPORTS MISS. TIMBER BUSINESSES TO RECEIVE $15.7 MILLION IN PANDEMIC ASSISTANCE PAYMENTS
USDA Begins Distribution of Final Payments Associated with FY21 Funding Measures
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today reported that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will begin distributing more than $15.7 million to Mississippi timber harvesters and timber hauling businesses negatively affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
