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HYDE-SMITH DECRIES IRRESPONSIBLE BLOCKING OF LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING & ACCOUNTABILITY REFORM BILL

Senate Democrats Block Starting Debate of JUSTICE Act, Leaving Nation Without Wanted Reforms

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today decried Senate Democrats’ decision to deny Senate debate on significant police reform legislation, asserting that blocking the bill leaves the nation with “irresponsible demands to defund the police, destruction of public property, and...

HYDE-SMITH, AG PANEL CONSIDER BILL TO PROMOTE FARM & RANCH ACCESS TO CARBON CREDIT MARKETS

VIDEO:  Senator Hyde-Smith Questions Farm Bureau President on Increasing Access to Markets.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) with the Senate Agriculture Committee today explored how to best increase voluntary participation by farmers and ranchers in conservation efforts through broader access to carbon credit markets.

The committee conducted a hearing Wednesday on the Growing...

HYDE-SMITH URGES SENATORS TO CONFIRM CORY WILSON TO THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS

Miss. Senator Addresses Senate on Behalf of Mississippi Nominee

VIDEO: Senator Hyde-Smith Urges Senators to Confirm Mississippi’s Judge Cory T. Wilson

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today encouraged her Senate colleagues to confirm Mississippi Court of Appeals Judge Cory T. Wilson to be a U.S. Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

In a floor speech...

HYDE-SMITH WELCOMES $1.27 MILLION FOR UMMC & USM TO INCREASE HEALTH WORKFORCE

HHS Provides Four Grants to Build Dental & Nursing Workforce to Serve Rural & Underserved Communities

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today reported the award of more than $1.27 million to the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) and the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) to support the training of health workers to serve in rural and underserved communities.

UMMC and USM...

HYDE-SMITH, KING OFFER BILL TO PROTECT PATIENTS BY EASING TELEHEALTH PAYMENT BURDEN

Legislation Required to Shield Rural Clinics and Federally Qualified Health Centers from Looming Medicare Clawback Payments

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S Senators Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) and Angus King (I-Maine) today introduced legislation to protect patients receiving care through telehealth services by shielding certain clinics in underserved communities from impending Medicare clawback payments.

The Improving...

HYDE-SMITH COSPONSORS LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING & ACCOUNTABILITY REFORM BILL

JUSTICE Act Focuses on Safer Communities through Better Training, Accountability & Transparency

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today cosponsored a major reform package intended to improve community safety through police training reforms and greater law enforcement accountability.

Hyde-Smith signed as an original cosponsor of the JUSTICE Act, reform legislation introduced by Senator Tim...

WICKER, COONS, HYDE-SMITH UNVEIL BILL TO EXPAND NATIONAL SERVICE AMID PANDEMIC

Additional Service Corps Members Would Support COVID-19 Response and Recovery

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), and colleagues today helped introduce bipartisan legislation to expand national service programs significantly to help the country respond to and recover from COVID-19.

The Cultivating Opportunity and Response to the Pandemic through...

MISS. SENATORS URGE TREASURY, SBA TO REDUCE PAPERWORK FOR BUSINESSES WITH SMALLER PPP LOANS

Wicker, Hyde-Smith Sign Letter Contending 11-page PPP Loan Forgiveness Application Burdens Small Business Owners

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) signed a letter that advocates easing paperwork requirements for small businesses seeking loan forgiveness under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).

The Mississippi Senators are among a bipartisan group...

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH WELCOME NOMINATION OF TAYLOR McNEEL

President Trump Selects Pascagoula Lawyer as Judge for Southern District of Mississippi 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today welcomed President Donald J. Trump’s nomination of Taylor McNeel of Pascagoula to serve as a U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Mississippi.

Wicker and Hyde-Smith recommended McNeel to the President for this nomination.

“Taylor McNeel will make a...

MISS. SENATORS ANNOUNCE $71.46 MILLION GRANT FOR GREENVILLE FREIGHT CORRIDOR PROJECT

U.S. Dept. of Transportation Grant Would Reduce Congestion in Downtown Greenville, Expedite Freight Travel

WASHINGTON, D.C. – 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 construct 15.6 miles of the Greenville Bypass Freight Corridor, which will complete a U.S. 82 bypass from near the Greenville...