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

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

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...

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

Thursday, June 18, 2020

Florida Daily

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...

Three Rivers awarded $400,000 to assist in region's economic recovery efforts

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Tupelo

Three Rivers awarded $400,000 to assist in region's economic recovery efforts

By Taylor Vance

PONTOTOC • The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration announced on Tuesday that it was awarding $400,000 in federal COVID-19 relief...

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

Monday, June 15, 2020

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...

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

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

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...

Senators Target Telehealth Access for Farmers, Loggers and Fishermen

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

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...

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

Monday, June 15, 2020

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...

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

Thursday, June 11, 2020

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...

Expanding Mental Health Services In Rural America

Thursday, June 11, 2020

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...

COVID-19 relief funds designated for hospitals

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

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...