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 She believes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, should be repealed.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.
Homeland Preparedness News
Successful U.S. mass vaccination campaign requires targeted preparedness, experts say
By Kim Riley
With Americans on the cusp of receiving the first doses of COVID-19 vaccinations, experts from across the public health system on Wednesday recommended specific...
Yahoo Finance
Thirty-Eight U.S. Senators Urge U.S. Supreme Court to Protect Right of Religious Schools in Kentucky to Meet In-Person
Brief urges Court to reverse decision by U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
December 4, 2020 4:33 PM EST
WASHINGTON, Dec. 04, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Led...
Y’all Politics
Congress reaches agreement on new COVID-19 relief package. See what’s in it.
By Frank Corder - December 21, 2020
Congressional leaders have reached an agreement on a $900 billion COVID-19 relief package that is also tied into a $1.4 trillion spending bill that funds the federal...
Radiology Business
‘Unconscionable’: Nearly 80 medical societies endorse new Senate bill to address radiology Medicare cuts
By Marty Stempniak
Almost 80 medical societies are endorsing a recently released Senate bill aimed at addressing Medicare cuts to radiology and other physician specialties...
KARK-TV Little Rock, Ark.
Legislation to stop Medicare physician payment cuts introduced by Boozman, Colleagues
By Chris Counts
WASHINGTON – Republican U.S. Senators John Boozman, Tom Cotton, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Kevin Cramer, and Susan Collins introduced legislation to prevent planned physician...
WXXV-TV Gulfport
Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith gives Thanksgiving message
By WXXV Staff
U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith issued a message for the Thanksgiving holiday encouraging Mississippians to remain optimistic throughout the pandemic.
Hyde-Smith asks the public to “recommit ourselves to giving...
Real Clear Politics
COMMENTARY: Election of Pro-Life Women Shows Tide Is Turning
By Marjorie Dannenfelser
Move over, Nancy Pelosi: Pro-life women are driving the new Republican surge in Congress – an unmistakable rebuke to Democrats’ radical abortion agenda.
With several races still too close...
WLBT-TV Jackson
Mixed reactions to Reeves’ comment that Mississippi would not participate in national lockdown
By Courtney Ann Jackson
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Governor Tate Reeves said Thursday that Mississippi would not participate in a nationwide lockdown if one was put in place.
Some of Mississippi’s Congressional delegation are standing by Governor Tate Reeves' position.
Senator Roger Wicker sent this statement. “I believe a nationwide mandatory lockdown would do more harm than good...
HYDE-SMITH HIGHLIGHTS BENEFITS TO MISS. AS SENATE APPROVES FY21 FUNDING BILLS, NEW COVID-19 RELIEF PACKAGE
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today highlighted benefits to Mississippi in an omnibus appropriations and COVID-19 relief package approved by the Senate late Monday night.
The comprehensive package with all 12 FY2021 appropriations bills and $892 billion in targeted pandemic relief (HR.133) now heads to...
HYDE-SMITH STATEMENT ON TARGETED COVID-19 RELIEF PACKAGE, COMPLETED FY2021 APPROPRIATIONS BILLS
Targeted Coronavirus Aid Agreement Much like Senate GOP Plan Blocked by Democrats since Summer
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, on Sunday night issued the following statement regarding an agreement on must-pass legislation to provide a new round of COVID-19 relief and to complete the FY2021 appropriations process:
“I share...
