Cindy Hyde-Smith

Votes Cast

25

Yea Rate

88.0%

Bills Sponsored

10

Missed Votes

0.0%

Cindy Hyde-Smith is a Republican Mississippi senator, the first woman elected to Congress from Mississippi, serving her second full term.

Cindy Hyde-Smith serves as the senior U.S. Senator from Mississippi, a Republican initially appointed in April 2018 to fill the seat vacated by Thad Cochran's retirement, then elected in a 2018 special election and to a full term in 2020. A Brookhaven native and University of Southern Mississippi graduate, Hyde-Smith is a longtime cattle farmer who became the first woman elected to represent Mississippi in Congress. She served 12 years in the Mississippi State Senate, initially as a Democrat before switching parties, and then as Mississippi's commissioner of agriculture and commerce from 2012 until her Senate appointment. In the 119th Congress, Hyde-Smith serves on the Appropriations, Agriculture, Energy and Natural Resources, and Rules committees. She chairs the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development appropriations subcommittee and holds seats on several other key subcommittees, recently securing over $184 million in funding for Army Corps of Engineers projects in Mississippi including the Yazoo Backwater Pumps. Her priorities include agricultural policy, the Mississippi River and Gulf Coast infrastructure, and traditional conservative positions on social and fiscal issues.