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A bill that would deliver millions of dollars in operating capital to JXN Water is being held up in the U.S. Senate.
On September 19, the House narrowly voted to approve a continuing resolution to fund the government through fiscal year 2026.
However, the measure fell in the upper chamber on a 44-48 vote.
Third District Congressman Michael Guest has been named by House Speaker Mike Johnson as one of the Republican conferees with the Senate on the 2026 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, and Legislative Branch Appropriations Acts.
“I am honored to serve on the Committee on Appropriations and to be selected as a conferee. This role gives me an opportunity to further advance the priorities of Mississippi’s Third Congressional District,” Guest said. “Thank you to Speaker Johnson for giving me this opportunity.”
Following this week’s floor passage of Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole’s (R-OK) motion to move the House to conference with the Senate on the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, and Legislative Branch Appropriations Acts, 2026, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) appointed House majority conferees.
Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast with a force our communities will never forget. Entire neighborhoods were swept away. Families were displaced. Lives were lost.
The devastation that Mississippi endured in August 2005 remains one of the most painful chapters in our state’s history.
House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) and Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement Chairman Michael Guest (R-MS) sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS
Two contenders for Mississippi governor in 2027 unveiled a raft of proposals at the Neshoba County Fair on Wednesday, vowing to spend significant amounts of money on new initiatives while keeping taxes low and government lean.
The lofty proposals are a preview of issues that could shape what could be a crowded Republican primary with Gov. Tate Reeves being term limited.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is pushing a resolution that would indicate that the Senate denounces the persecution of Christians in Muslim-majority nations, while Rep. Riley Moore, R-W.V., and several other House Republicans are pushing a House version that would declare the lower chamber's condemnation of such persecution.
Archbishop Edward Weisenburger of Detroit led a procession of clergy and lay Catholics the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement office on 14 July to call for the agency to stop instilling fear in the immigrant community and revise its policies accordingly.
Weisenburger, who was installed as archbishop on 18 March, has a long record of support for migrants and opposition to the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies from his previous tenure as Bishop of Tucson, Arizona.
Rep. Tim Kennedy of New York, a Catholic Democrat, said the hearing, coming as tensions over immigration policy have erupted between Catholic bishops and the Trump administration, ‘reeks of anti-Catholicism.’