WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release: Bipartisan Measure Would Help Forest Landowners Recover After Natural Disasters WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) is supporting legislation to fix the federal tax code that unintentionally penalizes forest landowners who lose timber due to natural disasters. Hyde-Smith has cosponsored the Disaster Reforestation Act (S.217), a bipartisan bill that would allow forest landowner  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, issued the following weekly report on Feb. 5, 2024: * * * China Threatens Mississippi Pocketbooks For many Mississippians, ports, like the ones in Pascagoula and Gulfport, feel like home. But they are more than that. They link our cities and towns with every corner of the world and connect us to global shipping lanes. For nearly a century, American access to the high seas has guaranteed the safe flow of commerce, bringing affordable good  more