Roger Wicker News

A federal judge has set a May 14 sentencing date for a Mississippi man who pleaded guilty to making ricin and sending letters dusted with the poison to President Barack Obama and other officials.

Watch as U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., questions Air Force Secretary Deborah James and the Air Force Chief of Staff, General Mark Welsh, about the Pentagon's rationale for relocating ten C-130J aircraft from Keesler Air Force Base to Little Rock, Arkansas.

A well-known politicial figure in the state and his sister have been indicted on felony charges of embezzling more than $600,000 from Mississippi Delta American Legion Post 1776.

Those who were pronouncing Obamacare a virtual corpse on thin life support, waiting to be buried, are suddenly mighty quiet.

American Midstream Partners wants to abandon its Midla natural gas pipeline in Mississippi and Louisiana.

The company made application Wednesday to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

WALDEN: ICANN BILL A 'PRUDENT IDEA' - A GOP-backed measure to press pause on the NTIA's recent decision to relinquish oversight of ICANN is worthy of consideration, House telecom chairman Greg Walden says.

THE LEDE: Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller wants to overhaul the rules for video on television and over the Web.

Signers of the Contract With America, who gave their party control of the House for the first time in four decades, are contemplating a reunion this fall.

Several Senate Republicans who backed a procedural motion to allow the measure known as the "doc fix" to get a final vote opposed the legislation - the very same day.

It was, as dinner with a member of Congress goes, a pretty low-key affair. My wife and I met U.S. Rep. Alan Nunnelee of Tupelo and his wife, Torie, for a hamburger after work on a Friday night.

Party loyalty is being tested in one of Mississippi's U.S. House districts as a former Democratic congressman runs in a Republican primary.

With a little more than two months remaining in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, challenger Chris McDaniel has this to ponder: It's been 72 years since an incumbent Mississippi senator was voted out of office, and he'd been there only a year.

Sen. Thad Cochran's opponent in the June 3 GOP primary, state Sen. Chris McDaniel, has been hammering the longtime senator because Cochran brings federal projects to the home state.

Mississippi's congressional delegation, especially Sens. Roger Wicker and Thad Cochran, worked hard for the passage and enactment of a bill signed a week ago by President Obama rolling back sky-high rate increases on coastal properties and flood plains in the 2012 reform of the National Flood Insurance Program.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - " U.S. Sens. Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker are cosponsoring legislation that would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from finalizing any major Clean Air Act regulation without considering its economic impact.

The administration has a plan to give more money to Southern states for clean-air protection, but lawmakers block it every year.

Mississippi mayors from cities along the Mississippi River joined others Wednesday in calling for Congress to support $400 million in the administration's fiscal 2015 budget to help fund disaster prevention efforts.

My wife and I met U.S. Rep. Alan Nunnelee of Tupelo and his wife, Torie, for a hamburger after work on a Friday night.

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, as seen on Sunday at Uber's headquarters in Washington.