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June 12, 2023
Twitter Instagram YouTube Newsletter Signup Weekly Report Home News Weekly Report Wicker Promotes Merit over Quotas at the Pentagon DEI Initiatives Distract from Readiness Efforts June 12 2023 The U S military...distraction At worst it is a dangerous dereliction of duty In response I recently introduced the Merit Act legislation that would keep the Department of Defense from prioritizing demographics above accomplishment...respect not public virtue signaling Maintaining a Culture of Merit Worse still focusing on these social issues erodes the armed forces culture of merit based promotion Some on the left would like to make demographic...
June 10, 2024
workforce through provisions in last year s NDAA One way we blunted their efforts was through the MERIT Act I wrote this law to preserve the tradition of personal responsibility that has always characterized...the left had proposed factoring in demographic identity when making personnel decisions at DOD The MERIT Act requires the Pentagon to focus on a candidate s individual achievement when evaluating them for...Services Committee will move forward on the next NDAA In it I will introduce measures to strengthen the MERIT Act and I am committed to making sure DOD follows the entirety of this important annual legislation...
November 6, 2023
equipping men and women in uniform To that end I introduced the MERIT Act This bill would force the Pentagon to focus on individual merit not group identity when promoting soldiers Our service members put...
July 3, 2023
efforts to rein in the woke bureaucracy and we passed a bill I wrote called the Merit Act I wrote that act to ensure merit not demographic identity is the top factor in servicemember promotion Laws like...
July 10, 2023
reinforced The result also promotes personal responsibility by holding people to their obligations Merit Not Race Matters Most Perhaps the most divisive case of the term dealt with the use of affirmative...as the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee I am advancing legislation like the Merit Act That bill would require Pentagon leadership to focus on the skills not the race of those seeking...
August 7, 2023
bureaucracy that distracts from their core deterrence mission In response I authored the MERIT Act which would ensure that merit not demographics remains the top factor in service member promotions Mississippi...
May 30, 2016
will be screened will prevent 175 000 cases of cancer in the U S population This fact alone should merit using USDA s more rigorous inspection standards I am disappointed that the Senate acting on outdated...
January 29, 2024
family members to enlist Last year I authored and successfully passed a law to stop that problem My MERIT Act makes individual excellence not group identity the top factor considered in military promotions...
April 14, 2008
making its decision on the tanker contract the Air Force made an objective judgment based on the merits of the two competing proposals The facts should be allowed to speak for themselves and this contract...
August 26, 2024
Service Academies That sense of civic duty has been on full display from a group of students who have merited a special mention I have the honor annually of nominating the best and brightest young Mississippians...
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