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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.
The rules, if this budget passes and is signed into law by President Obama, will be changed on this individual retroactively. The result will be that, instead of the retirement pay he signed up for and agreed to under the law when he did…
Realizing that that may slow you down, you'll still be able to proceed, though perhaps on a slower track; is that correct?
The purpose of the Coastal Act is to lower cost to the FIP by better determining flood losses in the case of slabs.
I would appreciate your getting back with a supplemental answer for the record.
Chairman Pryor and Ranking Member Wicker both eloquently described in their opening comments the challenges of increasing broadband adoption.
Affordable broadband offers are required to increase adoption among low-income households.
Reform E-Rate and Universal Service's Fund, target it to the most needed areas.
Our goal should be that all consumers be able to take full advantage of our 21st century broadband economy.
I fear this lack of adoption may hold our states back as we move deeper into the 21st century.
Maximizing broadband adoption needs to be a top priority of this subcommittee.
I want to commend our witnesses today, but also the private sector and others for doing all that they've done to get us where we are today.
I certainly now, looking at it from the outside, working with these agencies, would give anything if we could move back to the point where we really actually had appropriations bills passed year after year.
I agree with you [Captain Colburn] and with your written and oral testimony that the Secretary has the authority to do this and should do it.
The Senator from Ohio mentioned the Budget Control Act of 2011. It wasn't a particularly pretty way to do debt reduction, but it did give us the spending levels we are operating under now. The authors of this opinion piece go on to point…
As far as I am concerned, my distinguished friend from Ohio can still have the floor. I only wanted to take a moment to congratulate him on his remarks and to observe that when it comes to budget matters, he knows whereof he speaks. He not…
If the Senator would yield for a moment. I think the distinguished majority leader is going to make a procedural motion which will take only a moment, and then I have a question for my distinguished friend from Ohio.
I am optimistic, having talked to Chairman Shuster in the House and others that we can move that in addition to other transportation legislation.
I thank the Senator. We believe this amendment is a step forward to ensure GSA and DOE's green building policies support domestically sourced wood. I look forward to working with the Senator and committee leadership as this legislation…
We like the fact that essentially, whether unintentionally or otherwise, the 1996 Act left broadband technologies out of the regulatory scheme of the FCC.
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