Mississippi voters will elect candidates to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives in the general election on Nov. 5. Use this guide to learn about candidates’ backgrounds and policy views.
1st Congressional District Trent Kelly, Republican Incumbent
Background: Incumbent Republican U.S. House Rep. Trent Kelly is a Saltillo, Miss., resident and University of Mississippi law school graduate. He is an Iraq War veteran and the assistant adjutant general for the Mississippi National Guard.
The representative serves on the U.S. House Armed Services Committee and is the chairman of the Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee. He is on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and serves as chairman of the Defense Intelligence and Overhead Architecture Subcommittee. He also sits on the House Agriculture Committee.
In the 2023 legislative session, Kelly voted to direct House committees to continue investigating whether or to impeach President Joe Biden related to his son Hunter Biden’s business deals.
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The Mississippi representative also voted to raise the federal debt limit until January 2025; limit non-defense funding for the 2024 fiscal year; rescind unspent COVID-19 relief funding; cancel some Internal Revenue Service funding; increase the work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program; simplify energy projects’ environmental reviews; and to stop the student loan debt repayment pause in August 2023.
The Republican representative voted against the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2023, which was legislation intended to protect access to abortion in every state. He cosponsored H.R. 705, the Heartbeat Protection Act in 2022,