WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement regarding the resignation of Secretary of Defense Chuck...
Wicker: Congress Reconvenes With Lengthy To-Do List
‘Lame-Duck’ Session Should Focus on Legislative AgreementUnfinished business is likely to control the agenda of the last few weeks of the 113th Congress, which has entered a work period commonly...
Wicker Joins Bill to Support Hong Kong’s Freedom and Democracy
WASHINGTON – Today the Congressional-Executive Commission on China chair U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and co-chair U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-4) along with U.S. Sens. Ben Cardin (D-MD), Marco...
Wicker: Promise of Democracy Still Strong 25 Years After Berlin Wall’s Collapse
Challenges Remain to Confront Expansionist RussiaThe fall of the Berlin Wall remains one of the most iconic moments of the 20th century. For nearly 30 years, the wall represented the great divide...
Wicker, Leahy, Rubio Urge Obama to Speak Out on Hong Kong
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Senate President Pro Tempore, Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Senate Republican Deputy Whip, and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., today led a bipartisan group of 23...
Wicker, Leahy Statement on Hong Kong’s Ongoing Pro-Democracy Demonstrations
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Senate Republican Deputy Whip and, Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Senate President Pro Tempore, today issued the following joint statement regarding the...
Wicker Comments on Signing of U.S.-Afghan Bilateral Security Agreement
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today issued the following statement regarding the signing of a Bilateral Security Agreement...
Wicker Statement on U.S. Airstrikes in Syria
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement regarding news reports of U.S. airstrikes on Islamic State of...
Wicker Votes to Fund Gov’t & Aid Syrian Rebels Battling Islamic State
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement after voting in favor of a House bill to fund the government...
Wicker Questions Defense Officials on Islamic State Strategy
Miss. Senator Vows to Help ‘Take the Hill Again’ If Convinced Plan Will WorkWASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today questioned...