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.
Hinds Today
Hyde-Smith supports bipartisan housing affordability bill in Senate vote
By V. C. Moore
U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, chair of the Senate Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Subcommittee, voted on Mar. 12 for a major housing affordability bill that includes...
Gulf Coast Media
Tuberville, Britt join GOP senators urging Labor Department to withdraw Biden-era heat rule
GCM Staff Report
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, joined Sen. Katie Britt, R-Alabama, and 14 other Republican senators in urging the U.S. Department of Labor to scrap a proposed...
The Fence Post
Senate Ag Committee holds hearing on domestic consumption
By Jerry Hagstrom, The Hagstrom Report
The Senate Agriculture Committee held a hearing Tuesday at which farm leaders presented ideas on how to increase domestic consumption amid an oversupply of commodities and trade...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Arkansas cotton leader wants Congress to approve tax credits to boost consumption
By Alex Thomas
WASHINGTON -- One Arkansas farmer says federal lawmakers need to boost interest in domestic cotton products as producers continue to struggle amid poor economic...
Farm Progress
Buying American Cotton Act hopes to foster inelastic cotton demand
Louis Dreyfus Co. executive Joe Nicosia says the U.S. cotton industry is in jeopardy, but he has faith in a bill working its way through Congress that could offer huge support to domestic producers.
by Whitney...
Brookhaven Daily Leader
Co-Lin awarded $18M for multipurpose safe room
By Daily Leader Staff
Copiah-Lincoln Community College has been awarded a grant of more than $18 million to construct a multipurpose safe room on the Wesson campus.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency grant will pay for...
HYDE-SMITH, COLLEAGUES ASK LABOR DEPT. TO DITCH DEMOCRAT HEAT RULE PROPOSAL
Senator Trash Biden-era OSHA Plan as Overbearing, Costly and Impracticable for Businesses and Workers
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today added her voice to calls for the U.S. Department of Labor to drop an overbearing proposed heat rule written by the Biden administration and instead develop pragmatic solutions for businesses to follow to protect their workers from heat-related hazards.
H...
HYDE-SMITH BUILDS SUPPORT FOR HER BILL TO HELP STEM THE DECLINE OF U.S. COTTON
Senate Ag Committee Examines How to Increase Domestic Consumption of U.S.-Grown Products
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today argued that her legislation to incentivize the use of U.S.-grown cotton to stem the decline of domestic cotton production must be...
The Center Square
Cassidy, Hyde-Smith push for tariffs on Indian shrimp
By Nolan Mckendry | The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The screws on foreign shrimp may be further tightened with a newly introduced bill from Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy.
"President Trump imposed...
WAFB-TV Baton Rouge, La.
Sen. Cassidy wants to slap tariffs on imported shrimp; shrimpers agree
VIDEO: Senator Cassidy introduced the India Shrimp Tariff Act this week, proposing a 40% tariff on shrimp imported from India by 2028.
By Liam Combs
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Senator Cassidy...
