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Senator Hyde-Smith believes the Unites States is strong when agriculture and rural America are strong.  The Senator understands the unique challenges faced by rural Mississippi to provide residents with basic services, infrastructure, education, and health care.  She supports policies that will allow rural communities to expand economically.  The federal government should not be a roadblock to the growth and wellbeing of rural America.


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

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...

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

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...

HYDE-SMITH COSPONSORS BILL TO REMOVE BARRIERS FOR RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS

HYDE-SMITH COSPONSORS BILL TO REMOVE BARRIERS FOR RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS

Hyde-Smith Teams with Tenn. Sen. Blackburn to Offer Alternative to Biden Infrastructure Agenda

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) has joined U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) to introduce legislation to remove barriers for rural areas in need of federal infrastructure assistance—a plan that stands as a stark alternative to the Biden administration’s infrastructure approach involving...

Yazoo Backwater: EPA Decision Halts Construction of Pumps

Delta Business Journal

Yazoo Backwater: EPA Decision Halts Construction of Pumps

By Becky Gillette

There was light at the end of the tunnel. Now it is dark again. That is how the recent decision by the EPA to veto the Yazoo Backwater Pumps flood control project for the second time was described...

Two Mississippi ports receive $8M in infrastructure funding

WJTV-TV Jackson

Two Mississippi ports receive $8M in infrastructure funding

By: Cianna Reeves

MONROE COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) – More than $8 million in U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) grant funding will go toward rail projects at two Mississippi ports, Port Bienville in Hancock County and the...