WASHINGTON – The Senate Armed Services Committee considered the nominations of three senior Department of Defense officials today. U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., the highest-ranking Republican...
Wicker, Hyde-Smith Promote National School Choice Week
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., helped introduce a Senate resolution that designates January 21-27, 2024, as the 14th annual National School...
Senator Wicker Statement on SECDEF’s Non-Answer to Senate Chain of Command Inquiry
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) Republican members asked for the Department of Defense to answer basic questions about the Secretary of Defense’s failure to inform Congress...
Wicker Fights President’s Inflation
Republican Policies Lower Prices and Increase InnovationBy now, Americans are becoming familiar with the term “Bidenomics.” President Biden has been using the phrase to highlight his economic...
America’s Nuclear Weapons Are Dangerously Out of Date
Our safety depends on funding and timely deployment of the Sentinel ICBMFor more than 75 years, U.S. nuclear forces have underpinned American power and kept our homeland safe. The Soviets understood...
Senator Wicker Praises $1.9 Billion Economic Development Project
Project is the Second-Largest Capital Investment in State History; Will Create 2,000 Jobs and Pay Workers an Average Salary of $66,000WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., released the...
Senator Wicker Statement on Biden Administration Reversing Its Decision to List Houthis as Terrorist Entity
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., the highest-ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, released the following statement in response to the Biden administration’s...
Wicker Confronts Biden’s Record-Breaking Border Crisis
Republican Policies Improve Dire SituationIn December 2023, President Biden set a grim record. For the first time in our country’s history, monthly attempted border crossings exceeded 300,000 – a...
ICYMI: Senator Wicker Leads Press Conference on SECDEF, Issues Statement on Houthi Strike
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger F. Wicker, R-Miss., the highest-ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, yesterday led a press conference with other Republican senators on the...
Reed and Wicker Deliver Letter to Secretary of Defense Urging Thorough Review of DoD Notification Procedures
WASHINGTON – Today, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Ranking Member Roger Wicker, R-Miss., sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III regarding the...