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Mississippi’s Era of Outsize Clout in Washington Is Waning
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Nov 28, 2018 06:14pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Alan Blinder and Jonathan Martin |
| News Date | Wednesday, November 28, 2018 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | OXFORD, Miss. — It is difficult to miss Mississippi’s trophies of power.
There is the Thad Cochran Research Center, standing just off the University of Mississippi’s tailgating hub, and in Hattiesburg, the Trent Lott National Center for Excellence in Economic Development and Entrepreneurship. Close to the Arkansas border, the Jamie Whitten Delta States Research Center towers over rural Washington County. And hundreds of miles toward the coast, the John C. Stennis Space Center fills almost 14,000 acres.
Few states have held as much outsize clout on Capitol Hill over the last half-century as Mississippi — power that brought billions of federal dollars to the nation’s poorest state and gave its relatively small population of about three million residents sweeping sway in Washington. But the era of far-reaching Mississippi influence is waning.
When Congress convenes in January, just two of the state’s six lawmakers will have held their seats for at least a decade, a peril in a capital where seniority often rules. And Tuesday’s special runoff election to fill the seat of Senator Cochran, who headed the Appropriations Committee at the end of his 45-year career in Congress, was a measure of how the state’s stature has changed: In contrast to Mr. Cochran’s last campaign four years ago, the recent race won by Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith scarcely focused on how candidates would be able to bend Washington to Mississippi’s wishes. |
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