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" U.S. Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker today encouraged residents in Calhoun County to attend an upcoming meeting to find out more about floodplain management and potential changes to the floodplain maps in their communities.

George and Lamar counties in south Mississippi are receiving millions of federal dollars to build community safe rooms where people can seek temporary shelter from disasters.

Now that the Senate has overcome a procedural hump and voted by a wide margin in favor of cloture on H.R. 3548 , an extension of federal unemployment insurance, Democratic Senators are laying into their Republican counterparts for the multiple delays they caused over the past few weeks.

So U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker has suddenly emerged from somewhere to add his voice to the national debate on health care, and what does he have to offer? Nothing but the official Republican mantra: 'No, no, no, no.' Would that he or any other Republican actually enter the debate constructively and in good faith in the system: Wicker doesn't even ...

Daily Kos had an article covering the 13 Republican Senators who oppose extending unemployment benefits .

On a crisp, sunny Monday morning, several hundred people gathered in Batesville, Miss., for the renaming of the Batesville Job Corps Center to the Finch-Henry Job Corps Center.

PONTOTOC, Miss. - Josh West has one mission, and it's nothing complicated. "We want more and better jobs," said West, the regional economic director for Union and Pontotoc counties.

In the last ten years, Republicans have had twice as many Southern Senate incumbents get tossed out of office by the voters.

Earlier this year, Mississippi Republican Sen. Roger Wicker attached an amendment to the Senate transportation bill mandating that Amtrak allow passengers to check handguns during train travel.

A push in Congress for broader gun rights is threatening to derail Amtrak and stall a transportation spending bill, according to the Capitol Hill Publishing Corp.

WASHINGTON &#151 Civil rights groups urged senators earlier this week to oppose an amendment proposed by Sen.

Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., was named Friday the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee's Seapower Subcommittee, giving the Magnolia State three key players in shipbuilding: Wicker, Rep.

MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST a ' U.S. Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker are among a bipartisan group of Senators who are encouraging the completion of a plan authorizing increased offshore oil and gas leasing in the Outer Continental Shelf , including the Central Gulf of Mexico that covers Mississippi.

The latest Senate health care reform plan doesn't go far enough to drive down costs for consumers and is being drafted in secret without input from Republicans, Sen.

Legislation approved by the Senate Finance Committee last week would create insurance exchanges that supporters say would aid small businesses by spreading risk among a greater number of participants.

Disability Rights Mississippi is suing Lauderdale County over conditions in the county's 30-bed juvenile detention center.

U.S. Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker are encouraging Mississippi middle and high school students involved in volunteer and community service projects to apply for the 2010 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards program.

In a race in which Republicans are determined to take back a seat long in GOP hands, both major candidates are showing some significant money-raising prowess.

One of incumbent Democrat John Tanner's Republican opponents raised more than five times the money he did in the third quarter, spurring speculation that, as a Republican target, he's in his toughest race since he was first elected in 1988.

STARKVILLE a ' Next week's investiture of Mark E. Keenum as Mississippi State's 19th president will include members of Mississippi's congressional delegation and Gov.