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News  |  Frank Corder  • 
January 11, 2022

Day after Senate leaders propose teacher pay increase, Mississippi House version raises the bar even higher

The Senate version would move starting teacher pay to $40,000. The newly released House bill trumps that by $3,000. On Monday, Lt. Governor Delbert Hosemann (R) and Senate Education Chairman Dennis DeBar (R) released their proposal to raise teacher pay over the coming years, restructuring the pay scale and investing some $210 million into teacher…
News  |  Anne Summerhays  • 
January 11, 2022

Hyde-Smith joins bill to sanction Beijing for ongoing obstruction of COVID-19 origins investigation

Penalties include suspending, prohibiting U.S.-China viral research efforts Today, U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) announced that she has joined around fourteen of her Senate colleagues in cosponsoring the Coronavirus Origin Validation, Investigation, and Determination (COVID) Act of 2022 (S.3463). This legislation would authorize sanctions on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) if they continue to obstruct international…