State Exchanges Are Losing Insurers, Leaving Consumers With Few – If Any – ChoicesDespite President Obama’s promises of savings, his health-care law has been anything but affordable. Sticker shock...
Wicker: Mississippi Is Leading the Way Toward the Next Tech Frontier
New Innovations, Challenges Mark 20th Anniversary of Telecom ActIn rural states like Mississippi, connectivity can be a challenge. And yet, our state has become a national leader in groundbreaking...
Wicker Raises Awareness About Veteran Suicide
Social Media Campaign, Senate Legislation Respond to Alarming StatisticTwenty-two push-ups. It is a small gesture, but it is driving a popular campaign on social media to raise needed awareness...
Wicker: Senate Supermajority Backs EUREKA
Miss. Senator’s Proposal to Fight Alzheimer’s Disease Has 61 CosponsorsWASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., authored the “Ensuring Useful Research Expenditures is Key for Alzheimer’s...
Wicker Supports Fight Against Opioid Crisis
Bipartisan Bill Would Give Communities the Resources to Save LivesThere are now more deaths by drug overdose in America than deaths by car accidents. According to the Centers for Disease Control...
Funding for Veterans, Zika Blocked Again by Senate Democrats
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., today voted to advance a House-Senate conference agreement that would address the Zika health crisis and support America’s veterans and vital...
Wicker, Schatz Unveil New Rural Telehealth Proposal
Bipartisan Measure Would Expand Provider Access to Healthcare Connect FundWASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, have introduced a new bipartisan measure to...
Senators to FCC: Close the Rural Broadband Gap
Wicker, Manchin Lead Bipartisan Call to Expand Mobile Network in Rural AmericaWASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., are leading a bipartisan effort urging the...
Wicker, Brown Work to Strengthen Pediatric Research Law
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, have introduced new legislation aimed at speeding up the implementation of the “National Pediatric Research Network Act,”...
Wicker: Democrats Block Funding for Veterans, Zika
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., issued the following statement after Senate Democrats obstructed critical funding to address the Zika health crisis and support America’s veterans...