on April 25, 2018
Hyde-Smith succeeds Cochran on US Senate ag committee
New appointee previously served as Mississippi’s commissioner of agriculture and commerce
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Mississippi, is the newest member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.
She fills the void left in both the Senate and its agriculture committee after longtime Sen. Thad Cochran, also a Republican from Mississippi, resigned on April 1 because of health…