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News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
June 5, 2019

Hyde-Smith comments on Bipartisan Commemoration of 100 Years of Women’s Right to Vote

The following news release was issued Tuesday in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of Senate passage of the constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote. U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), who was in Mississippi for funeral services for Senator Thad Cochran, is an original cosponsor of the resolution and legislation cited below.  Hyde-Smith is…
News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
June 5, 2019

Palazzo Expresses Concerns of Impacts to Mississippi Sound caused by Bonnet Carré Spillway, Calls for Mississippians to Have Permanent Position on Mississippi River Commission

Congressman Steven Palazzo (MS-4) sent a letter to Major General Richard G. Kaiser, President of the Mississippi River Commission (MRC) and Commander of the Mississippi Valley Division for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), expressing his concerns about the devastating impacts on Mississippi’s coastal ecosystems caused by the re-opening of the Bonnet Carré Spillway (BCS). “My…