Meet the Candidates for U.S. House of Representatives in Mississippi’s March 12 Primaries
Mississippi voters will select Republican and Democratic nominees for U.S. House of Representatives in the primaries on Tuesday, March 12.
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Mississippi voters will select Republican and Democratic nominees for U.S. House of Representatives in the primaries on Tuesday, March 12.
Mississippi voters will select Republican and Democratic nominees for U.S. Senate in the primaries on Tuesday, March 12. These are the candidates.
Women with low incomes could get Medicaid coverage earlier in pregnancy under a bill the Mississippi Legislature sent to the governor.
Senate Republicans, led by Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., blocked legislation that would protect access to IVF treatments nationwide.
A vote to expand Medicaid to at least 200,000 people won a veto-proof majority in the Mississippi House on Wednesday afternoon. It’s the first time either legislative chamber in Mississippi has taken a vote on Medicaid expansion since it became an option under former President Barack Obama’s 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The Mississippi House is preparing to debate expanding Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands more residents in the poorest state in the nation.
The State of Mississippi has revoked the license for a medical-cannabis testing lab that once tested 70% of the state’s medical-marijuana products.
The Republican-led Mississippi House held hearings to consider Medicaid expansion for the first time since it became an option over a decade ago.
A Medicaid expansion bill will arrive in the Mississippi Senate by Monday, Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann says.
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