Unnecessary Regulations, Lack of Confidence Are Keeping Businesses From HiringEconomists point to June 2009 as the recession’s official end, yet more than two years later, millions of Americans...
Wicker Says American Energy Is the Key to Lowering Gas Prices
President Obama’s Decision to Use Strategic Petroleum Reserve Was Misguided and IneffectiveThe summer driving season has come with little relief at the pump. Gas prices are up 14 cents since...
Mississippi Congressional Delegation Members State Support for Deficit Reduction and Debt Ceiling Plan
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker, along with Congressmen Gregg Harper, Alan Nunnelee and Steven Palazzo, all R-Miss, today announced that they support passage of...
Wicker Says Obama Playing Favorites With Health-Care Waiver
Waive Act Could Shield Against Higher Premiums, Limited BenefitsPresident Obama has made it clear over the course of the debt debate that compromise would not come at the expense of certain big...
Senate Panel Reviews Cochran and Wicker Legislation to Expand Vicksburg National Military Park
Miss. Senators Advocate Passage of Bill to Expand Three Civil War Battlefield UnitsWASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) today encouraged a Senate panel to advance...
Cochran and Wicker Support Plan to Advance Export Agreements with Panama, Colombia and South Korea
Mississippi Senators Say New Trade Pacts Would Benefit StateWASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) are among a dozen Senators who support a plan that would allow...
Wicker Part of Oil Spill Compromise
New Bill Directs Clean Water Act Fines Toward Gulf Coast’s Economic and Environmental RestorationRecovery efforts continue along our Gulf Coast more than a year after the devastating Deepwater...
Wicker Votes for Cut, Cap, and Balance Act
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) today voted in favor of moving the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act closer to passage. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) tabled the...
Cochran and Wicker Throw Support Behind Bill to Distribute BP Fines to Gulf Coast States
Senate Measure Would Give 80 Percent of BP Clean Water Act Fines to Affected StatesWASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss) today threw their support behind...
The Constitutional Answer to Our Country’s Budget Problem
One change we need to correct this country’s unprecedented debt has a chance to move closer to reality this weekend. The Senate will vote on the Balanced Budget Amendment as part of the Cut,...