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...
Wicker: Terrorism Trials On U.S. Soil Are Needless & Risky
On Friday, November 13, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder made a shocking announcement: The Justice Department will bring five enemy combatants, currently being held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, to...
Wicker Votes ‘No,’ Says Democrats’ Health Care Bill Spends Too Much, Taxes Too Much, and Slashes Medicare
Senate Vote Clears Procedural Hurdle for Bill, Health Care Debate to Begin After ThanksgivingWASHINGTON – Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., voted tonight against allowing the Senate Democrats’ health...
Excessive Rains Prompt Cochran & Wicker to Offer Bill to Give Direct Disaster Aid to Farmers with Waterlogged Crops
Significant Crop Losses Recorded Throughout the Mid-South as Rainy Fall Ruins HarvestsWASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) today introduced bipartisan legislation...