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Marco Rubio Backs Proposal to Expand AmeriCorps to Help the Nation Recover From Coronavirus Pandemic

By Kevin Derby

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has thrown his support behind a proposal from U.S. Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., to expand national service programs to help the U.S...

WZFG Radio Fargo, N.D.

Cramer, Colleagues Call For Permanent Expansion Of Telehealth Following COVID-19 Pandemic

By Chris Larson

U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) led a bipartisan group of 30 senators in calling for the expansion of access to telehealth services...

Breitbart 

GOP Senators Say Mississippi Statues at U.S. Capitol, State’s Flag, Are State’s Business

By Penny Starr

Republican Senators from Mississippi were pressed to speak about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) letter to the Joint Committee on the Library on June 10 asking that 11 statues of...

mHealth Intelligence

Senators Target Telehealth Access for Farmers, Loggers and Fishermen
 
By Eric Wicklund

June 16, 2020 - Lawmakers are looking to extend telehealth into rural parts of America to improve access for people in need of mental health services.

A group of Senators last week...

WJTV-TV Jackson

U.S. senators on Confederate monuments at U.S. Capitol and Mississippi’s state flag
 
NEWS

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – In the wake of recent protests over police brutality and racism, some Confederate monuments across the country have been removed and relocated.

House Speaker Nancy...

Y’all Politics

U.S. Senate Judiciary sends Wilson’s 5th Circuit nomination to full Senate with confirmation likely

By Frank Corder

On a party-line vote of 12-10, the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary passed the nomination of Mississippi’s Cory Wilson for a seat on the United States Fifth...

Northern Ag Network 

Expanding Mental Health Services In Rural America

By Leif Bakken

WASHINGTON—U.S. Sens. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) led a bipartisan group of senators to introduce legislation to expand telemental health services in rural areas. The Home-Based Telemental...

WTOK-TV Meridian

COVID-19 relief funds designated for hospitals

By WTOK Staff

WASHINGTON (WTOK) - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded over $219 million in Provider Relief Funds to Mississippi hospitals. The funds are intended to help “safety net” hospitals that serve a...

Y’all Politics

Senate Judiciary Committee could advance Cory Wilson’s 5th Circuit confirmation Thursday

By Frank Corder - June 9, 2020

The U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary is scheduled to meet this Thursday to consider the nomination of Mississippi’s Cory Wilson for a lifetime judicial...