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HYDE-SMITH ANNOUNCES $8.0 MILLION TO BACK INVESTMENT IN RURAL & UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES

Forty-Eight Miss. Financial Institutions Awarded Bank Enterprise Award Program Funding

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today announced the award of more than $8.0 million that will allow 48 Mississippi banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions to back investments in economically-distressed areas.

The FY2021 Bank Enterprise Award Program (BEA Program) grants were...

HYDE-SMITH & CORPS OFFICIALS AGREE PUMPS WOULD BRING MEANINGFUL FLOOD PROTECTION TO YAZOO BACKWATER AREA

At Hearing, Hyde-Smith Pressed Army Corps Officials on Environmental Justice and Reviving Pumping Station Cancelled by EPA

VIDEO:  Senator Hyde-Smith Presses Army Corps Officials on path forward for Yazoo Backwater Pumps.
VIDEO CLIP:  Senator Hyde-Smith on Peer-Reviewed Science &Environmental Justice Behind Yazoo Backwater Pumps.
PHOTO:  Senator Hyde-Smith, Assistant Secretary of the Army for...

HYDE-SMITH STATEMENT ON JUDGE KETANJI BROWN JACKSON 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today issued the following statement regarding her decision to vote against the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to serve as an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court:

“I cannot in good conscience support the confirmation of Judge Jackson.

“I take seriously my responsibility to weigh the merits of each Supreme...

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH WELCOME COURTHOUSE CONSTRUCTION IN GREENVILLE 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today welcomed a construction contract for the new U.S. courthouse in Greenville, which will be built on the “Stein Mart Site” at 200 Washington Avenue in the historic downtown area.

The new federal courthouse will provide the judiciary with a 55,639 gross square foot facility along with secure parking.  The award is the result of commitment...

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH CALL FOR END OF ANTI-ISRAEL FOCUS OF U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL

Miss. Senators Among 68 Senators Asking Sec. of State to Refocus Resources on Actual Human Rights Crises 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) are among a broad bipartisan Senate majority that is encouraging Secretary of State Antony Blinken to assert his influence to end “discriminatory and unwarranted treatment” of Israel by the United Nations Human Rights...