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News  |  Anne Summerhays  • 
April 27, 2022

Hyde-Smith stresses need for fairness for U.S. cattle producers

Senate panel receives testimony on two bills that address price disparity between producers and consumers. On Tuesday, the Senate Agriculture Committee held a hearing to receive testimony on the Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act of 2022 (S.4030) and the Meat and Poultry Special Investigator Act of 2022 (S.3870). U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) stressed that American cattle…
News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
April 27, 2022

Governor allows state officials’ pay raises to go into law without his signature

Insurance Commissioner, State Auditor will see a $60,000 increase after the next election cycle, the largest of the lot. Last week, Governor Tate Reeves made his way through the last grouping of bills to be approved or vetoed from the 2022 Legislative session. Original docket reports showed only one bill went into law without his…