WASHINGTON, June 25 -- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release on June 24, 2021: U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today lambasted the Biden administration's FY2022 national security budget, warning that striving for "adequate" defense spending could embolden U.S. adversaries. Hyde-Smith, who serves on the Senate Appropriations Committee, joined colleagues at a news conference Thursday to highlight inadequacy of the 1.6 percent increase in defense spending  more

WASHINGTON, June 25 -- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release on June 24, 2021: U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today praised Senate passage of bipartisan legislation to improve access to carbon credit markets for private forest owners and agriculture producers interested in ramping up conservation efforts. As a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Hyde-Smith in April signed on as an original cosponsor to the Growing Climate Solutions Act (S.1251  more

WASHINGTON, June 25 -- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) on Wednesday welcomed the testimony of a Mississippi Delta banker on the need to expand federal programs that allow small community banks to supply loans to underserved populations. Hyde-Smith, ranking member of the Senate Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee, invited Bank of Anguilla CEO and President Andy Anderson to testify   more

WASHINGTON, June 25 -- Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release on June 24, 2021: U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., today announced $3.22 million in federal grants to support the purchase or lease of low emissions buses for the City of Jackson, and police and public works vehicles for seven other Mississippi communities. The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development proved the discretion  more