Jones County and the surrounding areas have been declared primary natural disaster areas by the U.S. Department of Agriculture , due to crop losses by severe spring and fall flooding and summer drought.

Relief could be on its way to farmers who have lost crops to a very rainy fall. The excessive rains prompted Mississippi's U.S. Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker to introduce a bill that offers disaster assistance to those farmers throughout the nation.

" U.S. Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker today introduced bipartisan legislation to offer direct and timely disaster assistance to farmers throughout the nation who are experiencing significant crop losses due to excessive rainfall this fall.

After hurricanes Katrina and Rita ravaged Louisiana and coastal Mississippi, Galloway worked with the Hancock County Emergency Management Team in Bay St.

Sen. Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker have joined in asking the federal government to help protect Mississippi consumers from companies and individuals offering questionable solutions for contaminated drywall imported from China.

Mississippi Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker are asking that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid allow his health reform package to be submitted for a more thorough analysis to determine its long-term costs to the nation.

In front of a large crowd of community and business leaders and elected officials, the ribbon was cut Monday on Stark Aerospace's new 86,000-square-foot facility at the Golden Triangle Regional Airport.

Stark Aerospace held the grand opening celebration of its new facility in Columbus, MS, today.

Sorting out some thoughts on a few things before we get too distracted by this beautiful Mississippi fall: The House passing a health care reform bill went about as expected as far as Mississippi representatives are concerned.

U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker said he believes Republican Gov. Haley Barbour would be among the top tier of GOP presidential hopefuls in 2012 if he decided to seek the White House.

Mississippi doesn't have enough residents living here illegally and will be penalized as a result.

Stanley A. McChrystal, the forces he has requested. The letter was signed by every Republican on the committee save for moderate Susan Collins of Maine .

Mississippi's two U.S. senators have introduced legislation to extend a tax incentive designed to spur rebuilding efforts after Hurricane Katrina.

GEORGE COUNTY and LAMAR COUNTY a ' Sen. Thad Cochran and Sen. Roger Wicker announced approval of more than $4.83 million in federal funding to support the construction of community saferoom facilities in George and Lamar counties in South Mississippi.

" 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.