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Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith

Senator for Mississippi

pronounced SIN-dee // hīd smith

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Hyde-Smith is the junior senator from Mississippi and is a Republican. She has served since Apr 9, 2018. Hyde-Smith is next up for reelection in 2026 and serves until Jan 3, 2027.

Hyde-Smith is among the Republican legislators who participated in President Trump’s months-long, multifarious attempted coup during the 2020 presidential election and culminating in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol. On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the insurrection at the Capitol, Hyde-Smith voted to reject the state-certified election results of Arizona and/or Pennsylvania (states narrowly won by Democrats), which could have changed the outcome of the election. These legislators pumped the lies and preposterous legal arguments about the election that motivated the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol. The January 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol disrupted Congress’s count of electors that determined the outcome of the presidential election with the goal to prevent President Joe Biden from taking office.
Photo of Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith [R-MS]

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Hyde-Smith is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the Senate positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Hyde-Smith has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to Nov 17, 2022. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Cindy Hyde-Smith sits on the following committees:

Enacted Legislation

Hyde-Smith was the primary sponsor of 3 bills that were enacted:

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Does 3 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.

We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Hyde-Smith sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Armed Forces and National Security (20%) Health (20%) Crime and Law Enforcement (16%) Agriculture and Food (12%) Animals (8%) Government Operations and Politics (8%) Economics and Public Finance (8%) Environmental Protection (8%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Hyde-Smith recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Hyde-Smith voted Yea

Veto Overridden 81/13 on Jan 1, 2021.
This was the Senate's vote to override President Trump's veto of H.R. 6395, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, which is the …

Hyde-Smith voted Yea

Conference Report Agreed to 83/16 on Feb 14, 2019.
This bill, in its final form, funded the parts of the federal government whose funding was to lapse on February 15, 2019. On December 22, …

Hyde-Smith voted Yea

Conference Report Agreed to 87/13 on Dec 11, 2018.
See the Congressional Research Service's 122-page summary of the bill. * * * H.R. 2 amends and extends major programs for income support, food and …

Missed Votes

From Apr 2018 to Nov 2022, Hyde-Smith missed 51 of 1,815 roll call votes, which is 2.8%. This is on par with the median of 2.4% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.

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Primary Sources

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