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Roger Wicker

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Roger Wicker is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Mississippi since 2008. A member of the Republican Party, Wicker previously served as a United States Representative from 1995 to 2008. Throughout his tenure, he has focused on issues such as national defense, economic development, and healthcare. Wicker has been involved in various legislative efforts and has held significant positions on committees, including the Senate Armed Services Committee.

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Jan 27, 2015

What additional legislative authorizes do you require to allow your Services the flexibility needed to avoid hollowing out the force?

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Jan 27, 2015

If we do not have the resources to train and equip the force, our soldiers, our young men and women, are the ones who will pay the price, potentially with their lives.

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Jan 27, 2015

Given sequestration's impending return, what is the Navy's near-term contingency plan to help protect and preserve the U.S. shipbuilding industry?

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Jan 27, 2015

Bottom line--stable budgets at a higher level than BCA are critical to long-term strategic planning, meeting the DSG, and protecting the Homeland.

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Jan 27, 2015

General Odierno, Admiral Greenert, General Welsh, and General Dunford, are each of you prepared to execute a budget that incorporates sequestration through at least fiscal year 2016?

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Jan 27, 2015

The return of sequestration is the law of the land.

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Jan 27, 2015

It is astonishing to hear that this is the smallest Air Force ever in the history of the United States.

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Jan 27, 2015

It does not seem to have calmed down as some people thought.

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Jan 27, 2015

We lose 4, 5, 6 months on a program like for us the Ohio replacement program where we do not have time.

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Jan 27, 2015

No nation in history has maintained its military power if it failed to keep its fiscal house in order.

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Jan 27, 2015

The clock is ticking away on that predictability. Is it not, General?

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Jan 20, 2015

Today, policymakers have a choice in front of them, a sharp choice. Do they want to protect an open Internet, or do they want broader government engineering of the Internet ecosphere?

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Jan 20, 2015

The draft bill, although imperfect, attains the ostensible policy goals net neutrality proponents have advocated for years by essentially restating existing law, but allowing the FCC to enforce it.

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Jan 20, 2015

If we wouldn't defend our NATO allies in the Baltics, I don't know what our word would be worth.

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Jan 20, 2015

When Russia invaded Georgia, about all we could do was talk about it and denounce it.

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Jan 20, 2015

I think that we don't want to re-create the Cold War, and I don't think it is necessary.

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Sep 15, 2014

General Dempsey, last week it was reported that Marine Corps Harriers operating off the USS Bataan carried out a strike against the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL).

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Sep 15, 2014

I have no idea, based on your testimony, what our coalition partners are expected to do.

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Sep 15, 2014

I want to make sure that we don't make the same mistake again by throwing those gains away.

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Sep 15, 2014

President Obama rejected the advice of many of his top military leaders to leave a residual force.

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Sep 15, 2014

I want us to win. I want us to defeat ISIS.

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Sep 15, 2014

I am willing to help the President, and to help you gentlemen, take this hill again if I believe there is a plan that will work and be successful.

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Sep 15, 2014

Will Saudi pilots in Saudi jets be involved in airstrikes?

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Sep 15, 2014

The surge in Iraq, ordered by President George W. Bush, worked.

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Sep 9, 2014

What about these folks sitting to your right? Why can't your companies do a better job for their customers?

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