Sen. Cochran Cosponsors Legislation That Helps Ensure First Responders Can Communicate During EmergenciesWASHINGTON – In an effort to increase emergency preparedness across the nation by ensuring...
Wicker Praised for Leading Successful Effort to Derail $7.4 Million in Mississippi Medicare Cuts
WASHINGTON – Citing the substantial benefit in protecting the nation's critical frontline-caregiver infrastructure, the Coalition to Protect Senior Care (CPSC) has thanked Sen. Roger Wicker,...
Wicker Statement on Medicare Override Vote
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., today voted to override President Bush’s veto of recently passed Medicare legislation, saying Congress has run out of the time needed to pass...
Wicker: Senate Misses Opportunity to Protect Medicare for 27,000 Mississippi Seniors
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., today said the Senate missed an opportunity to fix the Medicare doctors’ reimbursement issue without cutting Medicare benefits to millions of...
Wicker Says Senate Appropriations Bill Contains $500,000 for Memorial Hospital in Gulfport
Labor-HHS Appropriations Bill Funding Would Help Establish Cancer ClinicWASHINGTON – The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education spending...
Cochran, Wicker Seek Immediate Vote on Fix to Medicare Payment System
Senators Ask for Vote on Measure that Provides 18-Month Extension of Expiring Medicare ProvisionsWASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker, both R-Miss., today expressed disappointment...
Wicker Says Senate Appropriations Bill Contains $500,000 for King’s Daughters Regional Medical Center in Brookhaven
WASHINGTON – The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education spending bill, legislation that includes $500,000 in funding secured by U.S. Sen....
Mississippi Senators Support Medicare, Warn of Misinformation Ad Campaign
Cochran, Wicker Support Protecting Medicare Benefits for More than 27,000 Mississippi SeniorsWASHINGTON – Responding to a misleading radio and television ad campaign currently airing in Mississippi,...
Cochran, Wicker Announce Labor, Health, and Education Funding for Mississippi
WASHINGTON – The Senate Appropriations Committee approved the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education spending bill today. The committee report contains $18.95 million in funding...
Wicker Introduces Bill To Lower Health Care Costs
Senator Says Patient-Centered Legislation Will Increase Health Care Options for ConsumersFor too long, families in Mississippi and across the country have struggled with the high cost of health...