Cindy Hyde-Smith
Republican · MS · U.S. Senate
Bio
Cindy Hyde-Smith is an American politician and lobbyist serving since 2018 as the junior United States senator from Mississippi. A member of the Republican Party, she served from 2012 to 2018 as the Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce and from 2000 to 2012 in the Mississippi State Senate.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 8.4 years
- First took office
- 2018 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 76 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 67
- Senate class
- 2 · junior senator
- Jackson, MS · 601-965-4459
- Oxford, MS · 662-236-1018
- Gulfport, MS · 228-867-9710
- Brookhaven, MS · 601-748-8024
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $744k – $1.9M
- Liabilities
- $215k – $550k
- Net worth
- $194k – $1.7M
- Since 2018
- −$375k
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Cindy Hyde-Smith's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
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Caucuses & committees
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Committees
- Joint Committee of Congress on the Librarycenter · 10 members
- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestrycenter · 23 members
- Senate Committee on Appropriationscenter · 29 membersEnergy and Water DevelopmentDepartment of Homeland SecurityDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related AgenciesMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related AgenciesTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (Chairman)Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resourcescenter · 20 members
- Senate Committee on Rules and Administrationcenter · 17 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Hyde-Smith's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Will Mississippi send a Black Democrat to the US Senate? Scott Colom says don't count him outScott Colom is a Black man and a Democrat running for the U.S. Senate in Mississippi, a state traditionally led by white conservatives. Colom aims to unseat Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, a white supporter of President Donald Trump who is seeking her secon…
Biztoc.com · August 7, 2026
Soros network targets deep-red Mississippi in bid to flip Senate seatScott Colom challenges Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in deep-red Mississippi and is backed by George Soros' top advisor and Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Fox News · July 1, 2026
Legendary strategist: GOP Senator is 'nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs'Democratic strategist James Carville is predicting an upset in deep-red Mississippi, declaring that Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith is rattled by her Democratic challenger."Cindy Hyde-Smith is as nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs," the famed …
Raw Story · June 20, 2026
Why Is Trump Tanking in MAGA Country? These Dems Found a Good Answer.We learned this week that the Democratic-aligned group American Bridge plans to spend $50 million to help the party’s congressional candidates in this fall’s elections. It’s a whopping sum and a big gamble. The group’s announcement of its targeted seats turne…
The New Republic · June 11, 2026
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