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WICKER, HYDE-SMITH PRAISE $107 MILLION AWARD FOR NEXT AMPHIBIOUS WARSHIP

Navy Awards Contract to Procure Materials for LHA 9 to Be Built in Pascagoula

The Ingalls-built amphibious assault ship Tripoli (LHA 7) sails the Gulf of Mexico during builder’s trials held in July. Photo by Derek Fountain/HII

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today praised the award of a $107,194,022 Navy contract to Huntington Ingalls to purchase long-lead-time...

WICKER, COONS & HYDE-SMITH WORK TO EXPAND NATIONAL SERVICE TO BOLSTER PANDEMIC RECOVERY 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) on Thursday reintroduced the Cultivating Opportunity and Recovery to the Pandemic through Service (CORPS) Act, legislation that would expand national service programs significantly to help the country recover and rebuild from COVID-19.

The CORPS Act (S.1165) would increase the number of AmeriCorps...

MISS. DELEGATION REQUESTS FEDERAL DISASTER DECLARATION TO OVERCOME FEBRUARY STORM DAMAGE

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), with U.S. Representatives Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), Steven Palazzo (R-Miss.), Trent Kelly (R-Miss.), and Michael Guest (R-Miss.) issued a letter Thursday asking President Biden to approve Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves’s request for a major disaster declaration due to the extreme winter weather that hit the state of...

HYDE-SMITH PUSHES PLANNED PARENTHOOD FUNDING BAN AS BIDEN & BECERRA TAKE STEPS FOR ABORTIONS ON DEMAND

Cosponsoring Legislation to Protect Funding for Women’s Health Care

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today signaled her opposition to Biden administration efforts to open Title X federal funding to abortion providers like Planned Parenthood.

In response, Hyde-Smith today also cosponsored the Protect Funding for Women’s Health Care Act (S.1144) to protect that...

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH JOIN BIPARTISAN PUSH TO INCREASE U.S. SEMICONDUCTOR PRODUCTION

Twenty-nine Senators Ask Biden to Fully Fund Initiatives as U.S. Manufacturers, Industries Face Chip Shortage 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) are part of a bipartisan group of Senators asking President Biden to take steps to energize semiconductor manufacturing in the United States as the nation struggles with chip shortages from pandemic-related market...