RepublicanCindy Hyde-Smith
U.S. Senator · Mississippi
U.S. Senator from Mississippi
11 tracked promises, 9 rated
Mississippi
Represents Mississippi statewide
How they won their seat
Cindy Hyde-Smith won the 2020 U.S. Senate election in Mississippi with 54.1% of the vote (709,511 votes).
- Cindy Hyde-Smith · Republican54.1%709,511
- Mike Espy · Democrat44.1%578,691
- Jimmy L. Edwards · Libertarian1.8%23,152
Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.
Inferred legislative agendas
Cindy Hyde-Smith's record has sponsored bills related to agricultural issues, veterans' affairs, and gun rights, as evidenced by her sponsorship of bills like the SAVE Moms and Babies Act and the Restoring Rural Health Act. Additionally, her committee memberships in Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, as well as Appropriations, indicate involvement in rural development and resource management. Focus areas (from the record): Agriculture · Veterans · Gun Rights · Rural Development · Health Care Alignment with declared positions: Consistent. Hyde-Smith's sponsored bills and committee work align with her declared positions on agriculture and veterans' benefits. For example, her commitment to a new Farm Bill is reflected in her sponsorship of agricultural legislation. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Cindy Hyde-Smith has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.
Showing 2026. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.
Activity in office
What Cindy Hyde-Smith has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score.
- Votes cast
- 199
- Voted yea
- 124
- Voted nay
- 70
- Bills sponsored
- 8
Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · source: Voteview.
Monthly voting activity
- Yea
- Nay
- Total
Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.
Vote attendance
Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bills sponsored over time
Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.
Independence
How often they break with their party’s majority — neither good nor bad, just the record.
Most recent roll-call votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bill success rate
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$88K3%
- Large individual (itemized)$1.6M60%
- PAC / committee$995K37%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and ForestryOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry — Commodities, Derivatives, Risk Management, and TradeOn record since Jan 2025Chair
- Member, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry — Conservation, Forestry, Natural Resources, and BiotechnologyOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry — Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, and Food SafetyOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, Senate Committee on AppropriationsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, Senate Committee on Appropriations — Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related AgenciesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, Senate Committee on Appropriations — Energy and Water DevelopmentOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, Senate Committee on Appropriations — Department of Homeland SecurityOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, Senate Committee on Appropriations — Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related AgenciesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, Senate Committee on Appropriations — Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related AgenciesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriations — Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related AgenciesOn record since Jan 2025Chair
- Member, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources — EnergyOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources — Public Lands, Forests, and MiningOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, Senate Committee on Rules and AdministrationOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, Joint Committee of Congress on the LibraryOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Integrity
Promises kept vs. worked against — weighted breakdown+91 · based on 9 rated promises
- Championed 3
- Fully Kept 6
Teal segments are promises kept; amber and stone segments are promises worked against. The signed score weights each rated promise by significance and evidence confidence. Promise-keeping is shown separately from popularity, finance, disclosure, and stated positions. Methodology is open.
Integrity over time
In office since Nov 2018 · 9 rated promisesEach step is a real change in the sourced record — the score holds between assessments.
Promise status over time
How the tracked promise record has evolved.
- Kept9
- Against0
- No opportunity0
- In progress0
Replayed from this official’s sourced assessment history — the bands step only when an assessment is recorded or changed. Based on the most recent roll-call votes on file and the tracked promise assessments; never interpolated.
Topic coverage
11 promises across 10 topicsWhat this record covers — the number of tracked promises per topic. This is coverage, not a verdict; the kept/against shading within each bar mirrors the Integrity breakdown above.
- Abortion2
- Agriculture1
- Constituent Service1
- Defense/Military1
- Election Integrity1
- Foreign Policy / Israel1
- Gun Rights1
- Judiciary1
- Taxes1
- Veterans1
Evidence & significance
Evidence quality
Strongest source cited per promise.
- Primary (official record)11100%
Significance mix
How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).
Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.
11 tracked promises
“Committed to keep working toward a Senate Agriculture Committee markup and Senate passage of a new Farm Bill (Farm Bill 2.0) that includes a stronger farm safety net.”
“Pledged to introduce the SAVE Moms and Babies Act to reverse the FDA's action expanding access to abortion drugs and to restore in-person medical dispensing requirements for those drugs.”
“Committed, as a U.S. Senator, to fight for and vote to confirm judicial nominees she describes as pro-life and constitutionally conservative.”
“As a cosponsor of the SAVE Act (S.1383), committed to advancing legislation requiring documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.”
“Vowed that pro-life advocates would not rest until, in her words, every unborn child is protected under U.S. law from abortion.”
“Committed to work to strengthen U.S.-Israeli national-security, economic, and cultural interests.”
“Committed to support policies that strengthen the U.S. military and provide service members the best training and tools available.”
“Committed to work to ensure veterans and their families receive the benefits they were promised.”
“Committed to fight to keep taxes low so that families and businesses retain more of their earnings.”
“Committed to consistently defend Second Amendment gun rights.”
“Upon taking her six-year oath of office, pledged to continue serving Mississippi and to do everything she can to help build a stronger state and country.”
Verified record
103 sponsored bills · finance on fileFacts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.
FEC 2026 cycle — raised $5,027,031, spent $2,729,949, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored S 4805: Save Our Shrimpers Act ↗Jun 17, 2026
- Sponsored SRES 665: A resolution designating April 2026 as "National Native Plant Month". ↗Mar 27, 2026
- Sponsored S 3916: Gun Owner Registration Information Protection Act ↗Feb 25, 2026
- Sponsored S 3878: A bill to establish the Grand Village of the Natchez Indians and Jefferson College as affiliated areas of the National Park System, and for other purposes. ↗Feb 12, 2026
- Sponsored S 3712: BO’s Act ↗Jan 28, 2026
- Sponsored S 3697: SAVE Moms and Babies Act of 2026 ↗Jan 27, 2026
- Sponsored S 3633: Middle Mile for Rural America Act ↗Jan 14, 2026
- Sponsored S 3580: A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to make cost-share grants for retrofitting agricultural tractors with rollover protection structures, and for other purposes. ↗Jan 5, 2026
- Sponsored SRES 489: A resolution commending Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi, for 100 years of service to the State of Mississippi and the United States. ↗Nov 6, 2025
- Sponsored S 3065: LABEL Act ↗Oct 28, 2025
- Sponsored S 3047: Restoring Rural Health Act ↗Oct 23, 2025
- Sponsored SRES 464: A resolution designating September 2025 as "National Cholesterol Education Month" and September 30, 2025, as "LDL-C Awareness Day". ↗Oct 23, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 103 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 858
- Yea
- 622
- Nay
- 220
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 16
Full voting record
858 votes- SJRES198Nay
- PN8518Yea
- PN9304Yea
- PN9304Yea
- S4784Yea
- PN9382Yea
- PN9303Yea
- SJRES185Nay
- PN9382Yea
- SJRES196Nay
- PN9303Yea
- PN9302Yea
- PN9302Yea
- PN9307Yea
- PN9307Yea
- HCONRES86Nay
- PN8593Yea
- HR6644Yea
- PN73033Yea
- HR6644Yea
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Stated positions
10 positions on recordWhat this official says they believe — sourced claims, shown distinctly from tracked promises and from any assessment of what they did. A stated position is never scored and never affects the Integrity Score.
- Foreign Policy / IsraelStated position
Committed to work to strengthen U.S.-Israeli national-security, economic, and cultural interests.
Sourceshttps://cindyhydesmith.com/issue/israel/View position & sources → - Defense/MilitaryStated position
Committed to support policies that strengthen the U.S. military and provide service members the best training and tools available.
Sourceshttps://cindyhydesmith.com/issue/supporting-the-military-and-veterans/View position & sources → - VeteransStated position
Committed to work to ensure veterans and their families receive the benefits they were promised.
Sourceshttps://cindyhydesmith.com/issue/supporting-the-military-and-veterans/View position & sources → - TaxesStated position
Committed to fight to keep taxes low so that families and businesses retain more of their earnings.
Sourceshttps://cindyhydesmith.com/issue/lower-taxes/View position & sources → - Gun RightsStated position
Committed to consistently defend Second Amendment gun rights.
Sourceshttps://cindyhydesmith.com/issue/supporting-our-2nd-amendment-rights/View position & sources → - JudiciaryStated position
Committed, as a U.S. Senator, to fight for and vote to confirm judicial nominees she describes as pro-life and constitutionally conservative.
Sourceshttps://cindyhydesmith.com/issue/defending-life-and-protecting-the-unborn/View position & sources → - AgricultureStated position
Committed to keep working toward a Senate Agriculture Committee markup and Senate passage of a new Farm Bill (Farm Bill 2.0) that includes a stronger farm safety net.
Sourceshttps://www.hydesmith.senate.gov/hyde-smith-cheers-release-senate-farm-bill-20-languageView position & sources → - Election IntegrityStated position
As a cosponsor of the SAVE Act (S.1383), committed to advancing legislation requiring documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.
Sourceshttps://www.hydesmith.senate.gov/hyde-smith-promotes-save-america-act-saying-american-elections-are-american-citizensView position & sources → - AbortionStated position
Pledged to introduce the SAVE Moms and Babies Act to reverse the FDA's action expanding access to abortion drugs and to restore in-person medical dispensing requirements for those drugs.
Sourceshttps://www.hydesmith.senate.gov/hyde-smith-vows-pro-life-advocates-will-never-stop-fighting-protect-unborn-children-mothersView position & sources → - Constituent ServiceStated position
Upon taking her six-year oath of office, pledged to continue serving Mississippi and to do everything she can to help build a stronger state and country.
Sourceshttps://www.hydesmith.senate.gov/hyde-smith-takes-oath-pledges-continued-focus-overcoming-challenges-facing-miss-nationView position & sources →
Disclosure
A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.
No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.
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