Southwest Region

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH BACK BILL TO STOP EFFORTS TO USE FEDERAL PROPERTY FOR ABORTION

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today cosponsored legislation to prohibit the Biden administration, or any future pro-abortion administration, from using federal lands and facilities for abortions.

The Mississippi Senators are original cosponsors of the Prohibiting Abortion on Federal Lands Act, which was introduced by U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).

“The...

HYDE-SMITH WARY OF BIDEN OFFSHORE PLAN AS INTERIOR SEC. WON’T COMMIT TO FUTURE LEASE SALES

Senator Seeks Details on Interior’s 2023-28 Draft Proposed Leasing Program at Appropriations Hearing

VIDEO: Senator Hyde-Smith Questions Interior Secretary on Future OCS Leases.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today remained wary of the proposed five-year offshore leasing program offered by the Biden administration after Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland wouldn’t rule out...

HYDE-SMITH COSPONSORS UNBORN CHILD SUPPORT ACT

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today cosponsored legislation that would give mothers the ability to receive child support payments while they are pregnant.

The Unborn Child Support Act would allow a court, in consultation with the mother, to award child support payments while the child is still in the womb and retroactively up to the point of conception as determined by a physician.

“I hope good legislation, like the...