Cindy Hyde-Smith
Republican · MS · U.S. Senate
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R +26 points of win probability since April.
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
- 8.5 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
Cindy Hyde-Smith (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Hyde-Smithsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Committees
- Joint Committee of Congress on the Librarycenter · 10 members
- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestrycenter · 23 members
- Senate Committee on Appropriationscenter · 28 membersEnergy and Water DevelopmentDepartment of Homeland SecurityDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related AgenciesTransportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (Chairman)Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related AgenciesDepartment of Defense
- 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
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