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HYDE-SMITH BACKS BILL TO HELP THOSE HURT BY COVID-19 VACCINES

Measure Would Fix Federal Compensation Program that Hasn’t Approved a Single COVID Compensation Claim

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) has joined U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) in introducing legislation to help individuals who have suffered adverse reactions from the COVID-19 vaccines.

The Countermeasure Injury Compensation Amendment Act (S.3810) would amend the federal statute that authorized the...

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH STAND AGAINST POTENTIAL IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL 

Miss. Senators, Colleagues Pledge to Block Any Revised Plan that Fails to Block Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Capability

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) are among 49 Republican Senators who have issued a statement informing the Biden administration they will not support the revived Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran, which would reportedly weaken sanctions and lessen...

MISS. SENATORS INTRODUCE BILL TO IMPROVE TORNADO FORECASTING FOLLOWING DEVASTATING OUTBREAK 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), along with U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), John Thune (R-S.D.), and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), today introduced the Tornado Observation Research Notification and Deployment to Operations (TORNADO) Act to improve the forecasting and understanding of tornadoes and other hazardous weather. 

The TORNADO Act (S.3817)...

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 VOTES TO COMPLETE FY2022 APPROPRIATIONS CYCLE

Blames Nearly Six-Month Delay on Biden & Far-Left Dems Insistence on Cutting National Security Budget and Adding Progressive Poison Pill Riders

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today voted for a measure to increase national security funding and support federal programs through the remainder of Fiscal Year 2022, in addition to making important investments in...

HYDE-SMITH CONTENDS MAXIMUM U.S. ENERGY PRODUCTION NEEDED FOR NATIONAL, GLOBAL SECURITY

VIDEO:  Senator Hyde-Smith Questions Experts at Hearing on Energy Security.
PHOTO:  Senators James Lankford (R-Okla.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), and Hyde-Smith.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today pressed energy experts on how the United States should maximize domestic oil and gas production to help stabilize energy prices and strengthen the nation’s energy security.

Hyde-Smith on...

HYDE-SMITH JOINS BILL TO ESTABLISH REPORTING STANDARDS FOR CHINA’S DIGITAL CURRENCY

‘Say No to the Silk Road Act’ Intended to Ward Off Digital Yuan Use to Help Russia Evade War Sanctions, Increase Chinese Surveillance of Users

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today joined U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) to introduce legislation requiring new standards and guidelines for dealing with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Bank’s digital currency, the digital...

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH PRAISE SENATE PASSAGE OF RESOLUTION CONDEMNING HBCU BOMB THREATS

Bipartisan Measure Reaffirms Support for Students Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today praised Senate passage of a bipartisan resolution they cosponsored that condemns threats of violence against Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and reaffirms support for the students at those...

HYDE-SMITH VOTES TO END COVID NATIONAL STATE OF EMERGENCY

Miss. Senator Says Most Americans Believe It’s Time to Continue Their Lives as Normally as Possible

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today voted to end the national emergency declared on March 13, 2020, at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

The Senate voted 48-47 to pass S.J.Res.38, a measure based on a provision within the National Emergencies Act (NEA) that allows Congress to pass a...

HYDE-SMITH, ENERGY COLLEAGUES GIVE BIDEN PLAN TO REGAIN AMERICAN ENERGY DOMINANCE

Ten-point Plan Includes Conducting Offshore Lease Sales, Increasing LNG Exports

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today joined her Republican colleagues on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Committee to provide President Biden with a plan to regain American energy dominance.

The Senators made their energy recommendations in a letter to Biden that outlines the 10 steps the...