Wicker Provision to allow Amtrak passengers to transport firearms in checked luggage included in year-end spending billWASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., today announced that his effort...
Wicker: GOP Sens. Will “Take Full Advantage of Rights” to Stop Taxpayer Subsidies for Abortion in Spending Bills
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., has joined a majority of his Republican colleagues in the Senate in sending a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid regarding several alarming...
Wicker Cosponsors Legislation to Honor World War I Veterans
Meets with Sole Surviving WWI Vet Frank BucklesWASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., has cosponsored the Frank Buckles World War I Memorial Act, a bill to rededicate the District of Columbia...
Wicker Votes to Bar Federal Funding of Abortion in Senate Health Bill
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., today said the Senate missed an important opportunity to protect the unborn when an amendment he cosponsored to bar taxpayer funding of abortion in the...
Wicker: Senate Health Bill Raises Costs and Expands Government With No Real Reform
With the critical and consequential health care debate now before the Senate, my guiding principles have been simple. Any health care bill must enact the reforms that the people of Mississippi have...
Cochran, Wicker & Childers Press for Three Daily Roundtrip Flights at Tupelo Regional Airport
More flights needed to adequately service Northeast MississippiWASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker, along with U.S. Representative Travis Childers, today called on the...
Cochran and Wicker Announce FEMA Funds for Community Shelter in Pike County
MEMA Also Receives Reimbursement Funds for Hurricane Katrina Response CostsWASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker today announced the award of a $2.43 million Federal...
Wicker Votes to Eliminate Half a Trillion Dollars in Medicare Cuts from Democrats’ Health Care Bill
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., today voted for an amendment to strip the Senate Democrats’ health care bill of Medicare cuts totaling nearly $500 billion. The amendment, offered...
Cochran and Wicker Join In Introducing Stanford Investment Fraud Resolution
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker today joined in introducing a Senate resolution aimed at preventing the government of Antigua and Barbuda from receiving financial aid...
Wicker Says Disaster Relief Needed for Mississippi Farmers
On Thanksgiving Day, Mississippians gathered with friends and families around dinner tables to break bread and recognize how fortunate we are in America. Just as Thanksgiving is a day in which...