Roger Wicker

I wonder if the Senator from Tennessee would yield to me on this very point.

For many Mississippians, helping those affected by Hurricane Sandy is an especially meaningful mission.

I witnessed firsthand the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, and I can understand it can take years to recover fully.

Transportation infrastructure is a crucial element of our nation's economy, meeting the transportation needs for both people and freight.

I want to particularly assure those in this room that you have my condolences and my empathy at the damage and loss of life that Hurricane Sandy brought to your region.

The shooting, which involved two Russian-made Su-25 jets, was the first known instance of Iranian warplanes firing on an American surveillance drone.

Day after day, hour after hour in quorum calls. It is very frustrating, and frustrating to the people who sent us here to do a job.

Well, I appreciate the Senator's sharing his time with me. Mr. President, I guess in a moment, Senator Sessions will yield the floor and we will go dark, subject to the call of the Chair for a vote at midnight, and then we will sort of…

It won't look exactly like it does for my father, who is 88 years old today and depends on Medicare, but Medicare could be there. But not the way it is going now. We have to tackle these issues.

But we can meet these challenges. I have grown children--32, 28, and 25. They may be about to age into the next year, and they wonder if they will even receive Medicare when it comes time to retire. That retirement for them will come…

It is what every city council, every State legislature cannot avoid. They do not have a printing press down in Montgomery, AL, or Jackson, MS. I know the Senator has seen the local delegations of county officials coming in and talking…

I tell you what else it would do. It would tell the truth to the American people about what we are facing. I like what our young nominee for Vice President said. We have got time to fix this, but we need to fix it, and we don't have much…

Let me say from the outset that this Senate and this Nation are profoundly fortunate to have had the services of Senator Orrin Hatch for decades and decades. The speech he just delivered to this body was profound in so many ways and true…

Did we get all of the quotes that Senator Alexander offered submitted to the record by unanimous consent?

If I may, I will make one point. I know my friend from Kansas also wants to join in. This could only hurt job creation among small businesspeople and small farmers. I can't imagine why they want to do this. We have had 42 months of…

If the Senator will yield for a moment, this has also the same effect on mom-and-pops, family businesses that may have been in a family for generations. We are going to impose a 55-percent confiscatory tax on them. I am just speechless…

I think the looming sequester is hurting economic confidence, even as we speak.

A program that grows at 3 times the rate of inflation just simply cannot be sustained

The meat axe approach of the sequester by the end of this year is not helpful to the economy

We strongly believe that the questionable transactions involved in the gray market of prescription drugs in short supply that were highlighted by the Committee result from opportunists, and not health care providers, who see an opportunity…

I think we would all agree this is not the kind of economic growth that we need and that Americans have had in the past.

I appreciate the fact that you have talked about fiscal policy as well as monetary policy and the overall economy.

Because the President came out and reiterated last week his request that we simply raise taxes on $250,000 and above.

I have been told I have 10 minutes allocated, and I shall use probably less than that allocation.

I urge the FCC to move forward on the second part of USF reform, and focus on contribution to ensure that we complete modernization of USF.