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News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
May 20, 2021

Hyde-Smith Wants IRS to Stop Diverting Tax Enforcement Funding

At ‘Tax Gap’ Hearing, Miss. Senator Questions Diverted Enforcement Funding as Agency Seeks Bigger Budget U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today encouraged the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to end its practice of diverting tax enforcement funding to other agency programs at the same time it is seeking significantly more money to enforce the federal tax…
News  |  Frank Corder  • 
May 20, 2021

Mississippi’s Guest among 35 Republicans to join Thompson, Democrats in vote to form January 6 Commission

Republicans Kelly, Palazzo vote against the measure. Mississippi’s Third District Congressman Michael Guest was one of only 35 Republicans who voted in support of Congress forming a 9/11-style Commission to investigate and report on the January 6th Capitol riot. Another Mississippi Congressman, Bennie Thompson (D) from the Second District, was the lead negotiator for the…