WASHINGTON, April 30 -- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release: * * * HYDE-SMITH PRESSES USDA NOMINEE ON TAKING DOWN NON-TARIFF BARRIERS TO MISSISSIPPI AG EXPORTS Miss. Senator Cites Non-Scientific Chinese Barriers, Pressures on Catfish Industry at Hearing VIDEO: Senator Hyde-Smith Questions USDA Undersecretary Nominee on Expanding Foreign Markets for U.S., Mississippi Products. WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) pressed a U.S. Depa  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, D-Mississippi, ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release on April 29, 2025: * * * Ranking Member Thompson: Silent Republicans Unable to Defend Their Reconciliation Bill or Trump's Unconstitutional Policies (WASHINGTON) - Today, in the Committee on Homeland Security reconciliation markup to jam through President Trump's agenda to give tax cuts to billionaires and gut Medicaid, Republicans not only vo  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, D-Mississippi, ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued the following news release on April 29, 2025: * * * Ranking Members Raskin, Thompson, and Connolly Demand Trump Administration Provide the Contract They Crafted With El Salvador to House Hundreds of Migrants in Brutal Mega-Prison Ranking Members Seek Urgent Answers on Removal of Migrants to Salvadoran Torture Prison as Administration Plots Deportations of Americans (Wa  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release: * * * Sens. Wicker, Bennet Introduce the LOCAL Infrastructure Act WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Michael Bennet, D-Colo., introduced the Lifting Our Communities through Advance Liquidity for Infrastructure (LOCAL Infrastructure) Act of 2025. The legislation would amend the federal tax code to restore state and local governments' ability to use advance refunding to manage bond de  more