Senator Hyde-Smith supports common-sense, patient-centered healthcare reforms to help Mississippi families afford health insurance coverage without expanding the government’s role in providing health care. She believes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, should be repealed.
Senator Hyde-Smith appreciates the role of the state’s universities to support federal research on better prevention and treatment efforts on chronic diseases, like diabetes, that affect Mississippians disproportionally.
Northside Sun
Virtual Meeting Addresses Jackson’s Water Issues
By Nell Luter Floyd
Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba encouraged listeners during a virtual town hall meeting focused on the city’s water issues to contact state and national leaders and ask them to support improvements to the...
HYDE-SMITH VOTES TO RENEW FEDERAL WATER, WASTEWATER INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAMS
As Appropriator, Senator Has Role in Funding Programs Benefitting Miss. Communities
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today voted for Senate passage of legislation to reauthorize a series of federal water and wastewater infrastructure programs that benefit Mississippi communities.
The Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021 (S.914) passed on an 89-2 vote. The bill renews...
WICKER, SCHATZ, HYDE-SMITH REINTRODUCE BILL TO EXPAND TELEHEALTH ACCESS
CONNECT for Health Act Would Make Permanent Telehealth Changes Implemented During Coronavirus Pandemic
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), along with 47 other senators, today reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021.
The bipartisan CONNECT for Health Act would...
HYDE-SMITH STATEMENT ON BIDEN ADDRESS TO JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS
VIDEO: Senator Hyde-Smith Statement.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), who tonight attended President Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress, issued the following statement regarding the speech:
“I first want to thank Mississippians and Americans across the nation for helping to overcome the pandemic. We can enjoy a growing sense of well-earned optimism as we get back to work, back to...
HYDE-SMITH, COLLEAGUES DEMAND BIDEN ADMIT BORDER CRISIS, CHANGE COURSE TO HUMANELY SECURE BORDER
“What We Saw was Shocking, and a Crisis by Any Standard,” Report Senators Who Traveled to Southern Border Tour
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) and colleagues, who travelled to South Texas recently, today reported their findings in a letter to President Biden and strongly encouraged a “dramatic change of course to humanely secure the border.”
Hyde-Smith, who serves on...
HYDE-SMITH, ROSEN INTRODUCE BIPARTISAN ‘STEM RESTART ACT’ TO SUPPORT WORKERS RE-ENTERING OR TRANSITIONING TO STEM JOBS
Legislation Also Seeks to Close Gender and Skills Gap in STEM Careers
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) this week joined Senator Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) in reintroducing bipartisan legislation to help mid-career workers seeking to return or transition into the STEM workforce.
The STEM Restoring Employment Skills through Targeted Assistance, Re-entry...
HYDE-SMITH COSPONSORS THE WOMAN’S RIGHT TO KNOW ACT
Measure Sets Reasonable Medical Requirements for Physicians before Performing an Abortion
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) on Thursday joined in introducing legislation to protect the health of pregnant women and unborn children by providing adequate medical information for informed consent before abortions.
Hyde-Smith is an original cosponsor of the Woman’s Right to Know Act (S.1325), which was introduced by...
HYDE-SMITH & LATTA LEAD BICAMERAL LETTER URGING FDA TO PROTECT WOMEN & BABIES FROM THE CONSEQUENCES OF CHEMICAL ABORTIONS
“Requests to Remove the In-person Requirements for Chemical Abortion Look the Other Way on Women’s Health and Scientific Data for the Sake of Advancing a Political Agenda.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) and U.S. Congressman Bob Latta (R-Ohio), with 114 colleagues from the Senate and House of Representatives, today sent the U.S. Food and Drug...
WICKER, COONS & HYDE-SMITH WORK TO EXPAND NATIONAL SERVICE TO BOLSTER PANDEMIC RECOVERY
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) on Thursday reintroduced the Cultivating Opportunity and Recovery to the Pandemic through Service (CORPS) Act, legislation that would expand national service programs significantly to help the country recover and rebuild from COVID-19.
The CORPS Act (S.1165) would increase the number of AmeriCorps...
Christianity Daily
Equality Act Puts Religious Liberty And Thousands Of Faith-Based Organizations In Danger, Senators Told
By Anton Carillomr
Senators were told on Wednesday during the Judiciary Committee hearing that the Equality Act puts religious liberty and thousands of faith-based...
