WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release: Hyde-Smith also Cosponsors 'No Bailouts for Campus Criminals Act' Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) on Thursday cosponsored a resolution that condemns the escalation of antisemitism on U.S. college campuses and urges President Biden's Department of Education to take necessary actions to ensure that colleges and universities are complying with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to protect Jewish student  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release: Miss. Congressional Delegation Had Encouraged President Biden to Honor Slain Civil Rights Leader The Presidential Medal of Freedom will be awarded posthumously today to Medgar Wiley Evers, the World War II veteran and civil rights leader who was assassinated on June 12, 1963, in the driveway of his home in Jackson, Miss. U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) and U.S. Re  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release: Today, Medgar Wiley Evers will be posthumously receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Evers, a World War II veteran and civil rights leader, was assassinated on June 12, 1963, in the driveway of his home in Jackson, Mississippi. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest U.S. civilian honor awarded to individuals who have made "an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release: Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., joined colleagues in introducing the No Bailouts for Campus Criminals Act, legislation that would prevent protestors convicted of a state or federal offense in connection with a campus protest from receiving any federal student loan relief. The bill comes after widespread, anti-Semitic protests continue to spread on college campuses across the United States including in Missi  more