NOAA Awards State $10.9 Million for Commercial Oyster & Blue Crab Fisheries DisastersWASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) today said they are optimistic that...
Wicker Statement on Obama’s Defense Budget Proposal
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., a senior member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, today issued the following statement on the military budget plan outlined by Secretary of...
Wicker: Unemployment Still a Top Concern Five Years After Obama’s Failed Stimulus
Republicans Offer Job-Creating Ideas Without More SpendingFive years ago, President Obama assured Americans that his stimulus plan would generate “shovel-ready” jobs and jumpstart the economy. At a...
Wicker Statement on FCC’s ‘Open Internet’ Rule Announcement
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet, issued the...
Wicker Highlights Republican Plan for Health-Care Reform
Strategies to Lower Costs, Increase Choice Would Replace President’s Disastrous LawRepublicans had an answer ready when President Obama recently implied they lacked a viable alternative to his...
Keeping Our Promise To America’s Veterans
Congress seized an important opportunity this week to restore a promise to America’s veterans without adding to the national debt. On Wednesday, the Senate passed a bill approved by the House...
Wicker, Cochran: OSHA to Honor Small Farm Regulatory Exemption
Agency Bends to Lawmakers’ Concerns, Abandons Effort to Oversee Small Farm Grain StorageWASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) today said they are pleased that...
Wicker & Cochran: Suspend IRS Rule Targeting Conservative Groups
Senators Cosponsor “Stop Targeting of Political Beliefs by the IRS Act” to Protect Free SpeechWASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss) and Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) are continuing their...
Wicker Joins the Fight Against Pirate Fishing
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., is joining members of the U.S. Senate Oceans Caucus to fight for American fishermen who are being put at a competitive disadvantage from illegal...
Wicker: Senate Votes to Keep Promise to Military Retirees
Miss. Senator Supports Bill to Repeal Veterans’ Pension CutsWASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., a member of the Senate Budget and Armed Services committees, today voted to approve a...