Senator Hyde-Smith believes the Unites States is strong when agriculture and rural America are strong. The Senator understands the unique challenges faced by rural Mississippi to provide residents with basic services, infrastructure, education, and health care. She supports policies that will allow rural communities to expand economically. The federal government should not be a roadblock to the growth and wellbeing of rural America.
Delta Business Journal
Greenville Bypass Project Sizable Grant Will Fund The Venture
By Jack Criss
Mississippi U.S. Senators Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith recently announced a $71.46 million Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) grant for the Mississippi Department of Transportation...
News Mississippi
Hyde-Smith decries blocking of law enforcement reform bill
By Andi Davis
The Justice Act has stalled in the Senate and a Mississippi Senator is speaking out.
Mississippi’s U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith decried Senate Democrats’ decision to deny Senate debate on significant...
Brookhaven Daily Leader
Hyde-Smith announces $10.3M USDA food donation
By Gracie Byrne
Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith this week announced a $10.3 million donation of surplus foodstuffs by the United States Department of Agriculture.
A contract of more than $10 million was awarded to Hattiesburg-based...
US Ag Net
Senate Ag Committee Urges Perdue to Extend WIC Flexibilities
Kansas Ag Connection
U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., wrote to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue requesting the...
WDAM-TV Hattiesburg
USM’s nursing school to receive more than $335,000 in federal grants
The University of Southern Mississippi School of Nursing will receive more than $335,000 in federal grant money to support a pair of training initiatives.
By Tim Doherty
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WDAM) - The...
Clarksdale Press Register
Feds Allocated $71 Million for Greenville Bypass
Special to the Press Register
U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., today announced the award of $71,460,000 from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to ) to construct 15.6 miles of...
HYDE-SMITH ANNOUNCES $3.45 MILLION TO EXPAND MISS. APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM
Miss. Dept. of Employment Security Lands News Funding for Growing Job Training Program
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today announced a $3.45 million federal grant to expand the Mississippi Apprenticeship Program (MAP), an initiative that since 2016 has helped provide Mississippians with skills to find careers in today’s labor market.
The Mississippi Department of Employment Security (MDES)...
HYDE-SMITH: FEMA PROVIDES $1.48 MILLION FOR CORINTH DRAINAGE PIPE REPAIR
Tropical Storm Olga Flooding Damaged Underground Storm Drainage System
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved $1.48 million to support the City of Corinth’s repair of an underground storm drainage system.
FEMA is providing 75 percent of the repair cost for the South Corinth Arch Pipe Drainage System, which was damaged...
HYDE-SMITH SUPPORTS CONTINUING EXPANDED TELEHEALTH SERVICES BEYOND PANDEMIC
38 Senators Seek HHS-CMS Plan on Permanent Changes to Medicare Telehealth Rules
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) has joined Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), and others calling on federal health agencies to provide Congress with a written plan and timeline about any potential changes to Medicare rules governing telehealth.
In all, 38 Senators signed a letter to the U...
MISS. DELEGATION SEEKS DEFINITE RURAL HEALTHCARE RELIEF AS COVID-19 CASES INCREASE
Hyde-Smith Leads Letter for Rural Providers Set-Aside, With Support from Wicker, Kelly & Guest
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) late Friday led a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services strongly encouraging the agency to quickly provide relief to rural healthcare providers increasingly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The letter, signed by 49 members of Congress...
