The U.S. Department of Homeland security, as the lead agency for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and U.S. Coast Guard, plays an important role in Mississippi.
Senator Hyde-Smith is committed to working closely with FEMA and other federal agencies to ensure Mississippians are prepared for natural disaster and emergency situations. She supports hazard mitigation policies, which have proven to help save lives and save taxpayer dollars.
The Senator also supports Homeland Security efforts to protect the American people from domestic and foreign threats, which include ensuring a strong and well-equipped U.S. Coast Guard.
Florida Daily
Marco Rubio Backs Cindy Hyde Smith’s Homeowner Flood Insurance Transparency and Protection Act
By Kevin Derby
This week, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., threw his support behind U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s, R-Miss., “Homeowner Flood Insurance Transparency and Protection Act.”
Rubio...
WXXV-TV Gulfport
Bill aims to protect flood insurance policy holders from rate hike
WXXV Staff
Today, U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith introduced a bill to protect flood insurance policyholders.
On Friday, a new rate structure for the National Flood Insurance Program takes effect.
For many people...
Y’all Politics
U.S. Senate passes resolution condemning bomb threats against HBCU
By Sarah Ulmer - March 8, 2022
The United States Senate passed a bipartisan resolution that condemned the bomb threats at Historically Black Colleges and Universities across the country in February and reaffirmed...
Meridian Star
State delegation responds to State of the Union
By Thomas Howard
Mississippi representatives and senators weighed in after President Joe Biden delivered his first State of the Union address Tuesday.
In a statement, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith criticized Biden’s address as “rhetoric” and...
Knoxville (Tenn.) Daily Sun
Blackburn, Tenney lead charge to remove Russia from the UN Security Council
Daily Sun
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Representative Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) introduced a joint resolution urging the Biden administration to remove Russia from...
WLBT-TV Jackson
‘Freedom will always triumph over tyranny’: Miss. leaders react to State of the Union
By WLBT.com Staff
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Mississippi’s congressional leaders respond to President Biden’s State of the Union Address Tuesday.
Congressman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) applauded Biden...
HYDE-SMITH STATEMENT ON BIDEN’S 2023 ‘BIG ON SPENDING, BIG ON TAX INCREASES’ BUDGET
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement regarding the FY2023 budget blueprint unveiled by President Biden on Monday:
“President Biden’s new budget doubles down on the failed priorities he and fellow Democrats attempted to force on the nation last year. His fiscal year 2023 plan is again big on spending...
HYDE-SMITH, COLLEAGUES DEMAND ANSWERS ON ‘OPEN-BORDERS’ EFFECT ON VIOLENT CRIME RATES
In Letter to DHS Secretary, 22 Senators Push to Overturn Enforcement Guidance Regarding Illegal Immigrants in the U.S.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), who serves on the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, is among a group of Senators raising concerns about recent violent crimes committed by illegal aliens who crossed into the United States under President Biden’s...
HYDE-SMITH, COLLEAGUES TARGET ATF ‘SECRET GUIDANCE’ THREAT TO SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) and 19 of her colleagues are demanding that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) disclose details of its use of secret internal guidance to enforce regulations that are not openly published and could threaten constitutional Second Amendment rights.
The lawmakers detailed their concerns in a letter to Attorney General Merrick...
HYDE-SMITH STATEMENT ON THE STATE OF THE UNION
‘No Amount of Rhetoric Will Convince the American People that Things are Better for us Since President Biden Took Office.’
VIDEO CLIP: Senator Hyde-Smith Addresses the State of the Union.
FULL VIDEO: Senator Hyde-Smith Addresses the State of the Union.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) tonight issued a critical assessment of the state of the American union one year into the Biden presidency.
“Tonight is not an evening...
