Roger Wicker

Imagine a small town of that size, for example, in rural Mississippi. Imagine my native home of Pontotoc, Mississippi, where there are some 5,700 people living, and what if we only had two medical professionals in the whole town?

Congress deserves the opportunity to examine how we can strengthen the transparency of crimes on the high seas.

I do not believe the reauthorization act is the appropriate vehicle for a cruise passenger protection bill.

We need to protect passengers from crime. We need to ensure access to medical care while on the high seas.

I encourage the Cruise Lines International Association to work with Congress to find a market-driven solution.

You could go back, though, and get the committee some cost comparisons for testing in the past and supply them to us on the record.

I think probably the chairman would want you to get back to us about how we can be helpful in pushing the timeline.

I absolutely would be remiss if I did not thank you, Mr. Secretary, for your heroic effort and the work you have done on the Port of Gulfport restoration project.

I suspect that his views on budgeting are considerably different from mine. That is because his candidate won the Presidential election and mine did not.

I remember 3 years ago--it was almost exactly 3 years ago--Mr. Secretary, when a devastating tornado hit Smithville, Mississippi, and Secretary Donovan came down within days with two other members of the administration, showed real…

Do you need any help from--from the Congress in that regard?

This hearing deals with preserving public safety and network reliability in the IP transition.

The modernization of our Nation's communications network... is expected to maximize the benefits of IP broadband networks to all Americans.

I appreciate someone standing up and challenging the conventional wisdom. Martin Luther did that. Martin Luther King did that.

Mr. Chairman, I wonder if there is any reason to believe that if we raise electricity rates on American farmers and ranchers by double digits that that line is going to change one way or the other?

Where is that additional capacity going to come from?

I realize, Mr. Director, this is not a climate issue, but I am merely trying to point out that you are concerned about the migration of ducks, as am I, as are our people in Mississippi, particularly along the river counties and the delta…

So you have a disagreement with the scientists who have demonstrated that we basically have flat-lined.

Part of that reduction in habitat is putting more of the land into corn to respond to this public policy decision that the Federal Government has made.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In absentia, thank you to Senator Tester for coming. We do appear occasionally on Crossfire and enjoy trying to match wits.

I admire you for standing up, and Dr. South also, for standing up, and saying you have a right to be heard.

I have to say this: I have not today nor have I ever in a committee hearing insulted the integrity of witnesses on the other side of an issue.

It is a fool's journey into the night to think that setting a good example will cause China to follow.

How much money and how many employees is this going to take, and will this negatively impact other fish and wildlife service programs?

Senator Wicker, you said my full testimony about the worst neighbors, the Forest Service.