Education

HYDE-SMITH HELPS REINTRODUCE BIPARTISAN BILL TO STRENGTHEN PALLIATIVE & HOSPICE CARE

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) this week helped reintroduce bipartisan legislation to address growing concerns about a shortage of palliative and hospice caregivers as the nation’s population grows older.

The Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA) (S.2243) would help ensure an adequate, appropriately trained workforce to provide pain and symptom management...

HYDE-SMITH VOTES TO ADVANCE THREE FY2024 FUNDING BILLS 

Senate Appropriations Committee Okays Bills that Reflect Funding Reductions Required in Debt Limit Agreement

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today voted to advance three FY2024 appropriations bills, each of which recommend lower discretionary funding levels than approved last year.

The committee on Thursday marked up the FY2024 Commerce, Justice, and Science...

HYDE-SMITH, COMMITTEE EXAMINE ‘SPECIAL DIABETES PROGRAM’ PROGRESS, OUTLOOK FOR REAUTHORIZATION

Long-Standing Type 1 Diabetes Research Program Set to Expire Sept. 30 Without Action

VIDEO CLIP:  Senator Hyde-Smith Examines Challenges for Rural Mississippians with Diabetes.
VIDEO:  Senator Hyde-Smith Questions Witness on Special Diabetes Program Reauthorization.
PHOTO:  Senator Hyde-Smith Meets JuJu Phillips, Mississippi’s Delegate to JDRF Children’s Congress.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy...

HYDE-SMITH HIGHLIGHTS MISS. BENEFITS IN SENATE AG FUNDING BILL 

Miss. Senator Serves on Committee that Approves FY2024 Agriculture Appropriations Bill

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today welcomed committee passage of an appropriations measure that would direct federal investments in agricultural programs in Mississippi.

Hyde-Smith voted with her committee colleagues to advance the FY2024 Agriculture, Rural...

A YEAR AFTER DOBBS DECISION, HYDE-SMITH WEIGHS STATE OF PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT

In Speech, Senate Pro-Life Caucus Chair Lauds Lives Saved, While Critical of Democrats’ Extreme Pro-Abortion Agenda

VIDEO CLIPS:  Senator Hyde-Smith Comments on Pro-Life Advances, Democratic Pro-Abortion Agenda.
VIDEO:  Senator Hyde-Smith Delivers Speech on State of Pro-Life Movement a Year After Dobbs Decision.
TEXT:  Senator Hyde-Smith’s Dobbs Decision Anniversary Speech.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In advance of the first...

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH, SCHATZ REINTRODUCE BILL TO EXPAND TELEHEALTH ACCESS, MAKE PERMANENT TELEHEALTH FLEXIBILITIES

60 Senators Cosponsor Bipartisan ‘CONNECT for Health Act,’ the Most Comprehensive Telehealth Legislation in Congress

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) today led a bipartisan group of 60 senators in reintroducing the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for...

HYDE-SMITH BACKS BILL TO BRING WHOLE MILK ACCESS TO ALL SCHOOLS

Miss. Senator Cosponsors Bipartisan ‘Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act’

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today helped introduce bipartisan legislation to amend the federal school lunch program guidelines to allow unflavored and flavored whole milk to be offered in school cafeterias.

The Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act (S.1957), introduced by Senator Roger Marshall M.D. (R-Kan.) on Tuesday, would expand...