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Culture  |  Anne Summerhays  • 
October 12, 2021

Senator Wicker advocates for expedited approval of new COVID-19 therapies

Wicker: FDA should increase access to lifesaving treatments. Today, U.S. Senator Roger Wicker urged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to consider all available options to expedite access to several new COVID-19 therapies that are currently under development. “The arrival of new COVID-19 therapies could prove pivotal in ending our country’s long and challenging battle…
Culture  |  Anne Summerhays  • 
October 12, 2021

Hyde-Smith signs onto ‘Be Gone’ Act to block, deport convicted sex criminals from the U.S.

Aggravated sexual violence isn’t a deportable offense under current U.S. Immigration Law; bill addresses shortcoming  U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith is cosponsoring the BE GONE Act, or the Better Enforcement of Grievous Offenses by un-Naturalized Emigrants Act, which would correct a shortcoming in the nation’s immigration law. The legislation addresses the fact that sexual assault and other…