First Water Infrastructure Law Since 2007 Will Improve Mississippi Ports, Waterways & Flood Protection InfrastructureWASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Thad Cochran, R-Miss.,...
Wicker Opposes President Obama’s Latest EPA Overreach
New Regulations Would Increase Electricity Rates, Hurt Economic GrowthIn 2010, President Obama’s cap-and-trade legislation to regulate carbon dioxide emissions failed in Congress. The President...
Wicker, Cochran Call on President to Revoke New EPA Rules
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Thad Cochran, R-Miss., today signed a letter along with 39 Senators calling on President Obama to withdraw the recently announced Environmental...
Wicker: Draconian Climate Regulations Would Burden Miss. Farmers, Foresters
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., today expressed his concerns with new Environment Protection Agency (EPA) regulations on carbon emissions during a Senate Environment and Public...
Wicker Applauds Final Passage of Water Resources Legislation
Approval of House-Senate Agreement Coincides With Positive News at Port of GulfportEarlier this month, Mississippi welcomed a new addition to the Port of Gulfport. McDermott International, which...
Wicker Delivers Senate Speech in Support of Water Resources Bill
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., a member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today took to the Senate floor in support of the House-Senate agreement on the...
Wicker Responds to FCC Vote on ‘Open Internet’ Proceeding
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., leading Republican of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet, issued the...
Wicker, Cochran: Congress Reaches Deal on Water Resources Bill
Miss. Senators Say Bill Would ‘Benefit State’s Water Infrastructure, Ports’WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Thad Cochran, R-Miss., today said that a House-Senate agreement on a...
Wicker Commends Mississippi Manufacturer for Construction of 300th Lakota Helicopter
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., today commended Airbus Helicopters, Inc. in Columbus, Miss., for delivering the 300th UH-72A Lakota helicopter to the Army. U.S. military veterans...
Wicker: ‘Gainful Employment’ Rule Discriminates Vocational Schools, Community Colleges
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., today told Secretary of Education Arne Duncan that the agency’s proposed “gainful employment” regulation unfairly discriminates against for-profit...