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07/1/2021
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Wicker Celebrates the Fourth of July
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07/1/2021
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Wicker, Colleagues Reintroduce the Protecting Life and Taxpayers Act
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06/29/2021
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ICYMI: Wicker Hosts Secretary of Commerce in Mississippi
– U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, hosted U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo for a tour of sites along the Mississippi Gulf Coast on Friday, June 25.
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06/28/2021
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Wicker, Hyde-Smith to Interior Sec: Hold Lease Sale, Disclose Plans for OCS Leasing Program
U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., are calling on the Biden administration to conduct lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and to provide answers on the future of the federal offshore leasing program.
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06/28/2021
Weekly Reports
Wicker Urges Swift Evacuation of Afghan Interpreters
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06/27/2021
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Wicker, Colleagues Ask CDC, TSA for Update on Travel Guidance, Mask Requirements on Planes, Buses
Roger Wicker asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for more information on when and how the agencies will update their travel guidance for vaccinated people.
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06/25/2021
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Wicker, Colleagues Introduce Resolution Calling on Biden CDC to End Mask Mandate for Vaccinated Americans on Airplanes and Public Transportation
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., joined U.S. Senators. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Susan Collins, R-Maine, Jerry Moran, R-Kan., Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., in introducing a resolution calling on the Biden Administration’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to end its mask mandate for fully vaccinated individuals on public transportation throughout the United States—including at airports, on commercial airplanes, on buses, and rail systems.
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06/24/2021
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Wicker, Hyde-Smith Announce $3.22M for Mississippi Communities
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., today announced $3.22 million in federal grants to support the purchase or lease of low emissions buses for the City of Jackson, and police and public works vehicles for seven other Mississippi communities.
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06/23/2021
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Wicker Disappointed in Administration’s “So-Called” 30-Year Shipbuilding Plan
Wicker expressed his disappointment in the Pentagon’s “so-called” 30-year shipbuilding plan released last Friday.
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06/23/2021
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Wicker Challenges Biden Administration Over Research Using Aborted Infants
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss. led Members of Congress in sending a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra criticizing HHS’s recent decisions to discontinue the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) nonpartisan Fetal Tissue Research Ethics Advisory Board (EAB) and to restore taxpayer funding for federal researchers to obtain, use, and store the body parts of aborted children.