Southwest Region

HYDE-SMITH REPORTS MISS. TIMBER BUSINESSES TO RECEIVE $15.7 MILLION IN PANDEMIC ASSISTANCE PAYMENTS

USDA Begins Distribution of Final Payments Associated with FY21 Funding Measures 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today reported that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will begin distributing more than $15.7 million to Mississippi timber harvesters and timber hauling businesses negatively affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

The Pandemic Assistance for Timber...

HYDE-SMITH COSPONSORS BILL LINKING MORE U.S. ENERGY PRODUCTION TO STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE

Tapping Strategic Reserve Would Trigger Inland, Offshore Energy Production Requirements

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) has joined fellow Energy and Natural Resources Committee members in introducing legislation to require more U.S. energy production when the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is tapped.

Lawmakers offered the Strategic Production Response Act following...

HYDE-SMITH STATEMENT FOLLOWING DOBBS ORAL ARGUMENTS IN SUPREME COURT

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today issued the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the constitutionality of the Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks:

“I will take time to more closely study the arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, but I am cautiously optimistic.  The lawyers representing Mississippi presented a...