The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 12/15/7
Lt. Gov.-elect Phil Bryant has tabbed Billy Hewes, R-Gulfport, as his choice for Senate president pro tem.
In a letter to the 52 members of the state Senate, Bryant said Hewes has “broad-based support in the Senate, and even the members who expressed another preference speak favorably about him.”
The Senate president pro tem presides in the absence of the lieutenant governor and also chairs the pivotal Rules Committee. The position is elected by the members of the Senate, though generally speaking the members have yielded to the wishes of the lieutenant governor for the post.
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The Supreme Court hands a win to oil and gas companies fighting environmental lawsuits in Louisiana
The unanimous procedural decision gives the companies a new day in federal court after a state jury ordered Chevron to pay upward of $740 million to clean up damage to the state’s coastline, one of multiple similar lawsuits.
