WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker today announced that 12 additional fire departments in Mississippi have been awarded grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
Wicker Supports Fresh Start and Step-by-Step Approach for Health Care
After months of struggling to get our voices heard in the health care debate, Republicans have reason to hope that our ideas will at last be welcome – or at least be considered. In contrast to the...
Southwest Mississippi Community College Gains $4.8 Million For Regional Workforce Training Center
Cochran, Wicker Indicate Federal Funds Linked to 2008 Hurricane Gustav Recovery WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker today announced the award of a $4.8 million...
Wicker Says Energy Production Can Create American Jobs
Domestic Exploration Would Reduce Deficit While Spurring GrowthWith our nation’s unemployment rate near ten percent, job creation will be a major challenge for Congress this year. In a surprise move...
Wicker Says Jobs Bill Would Have Benefitted Mississippi Farmers
WASHINGTON - A jobs bill that had gained broad bipartisan support should not have been pulled from consideration, particularly since it included $1.5 billion for agriculture disaster relief, U.S....
Wicker: Out-Of-Control Deficit Spending Wrong Way to Create Jobs
A top Democratic leader in the U.S. House of Representatives recently said, “We’ve got to spend our way out of this recession.” Rep. James Clyburn, the Democratic Whip, said that we have two choices...
Wicker Statement on the Passing of Chief Phillip Martin of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., today issued the following statement on the death of Phillip Martin, the longtime chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians:“Chief Martin was a...
Wicker: Bipartisan Entitlement Commission Might Provide Solution to Debt Crisis
The fiscal challenges facing our country have become increasingly clear over the past 18 months. As I highlighted in last week’s column, our mounting level of debt has serious consequences. As a...
Wicker Says President Obama’s $3.8 Trillion Budget is More of the Same
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., today reacted to President Obama’s proposed $3.8 trillion budget proposal, which was delivered to Congress this morning:“Even though the American public...
Wicker Opposes Debt Limit Increase
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., issued the following statement today after voting against raising the limit on the national debt by $1.9 trillion to a record $14.3...