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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 ...

The gathering Saturday at Capital City Alternative School aimed to inform people of all races and backgrounds why they should get counted in the Census.

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

Candidate Barack Obama made a big deal about government transparency and giving citizens ample opportunity to read pieces of legislation before they're voted on.

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.

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.

Both national parties are looking at north Mississippi's 1st District congressional race as a priority in the 2010 elections.

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.