Roger Wicker

I am also troubled by the expanding use of contractors and consultants to perform jobs typically performed by our Active Duty personnel.

I am concerned that our military schools and education facilities are not as efficient as they could be.

My initial thinking is that the funding needs additional benchmarks and criteria which ensure that our money is spent wisely.

I am taking a close look at the $1.1 billion requested by the administration for the PCCF.

The Marine Corps will be conducting studies in August 2011 to determine the relationship between time spent in the amphibious vehicle and combat effectiveness and identify potential improvements.

We applaud Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker for their leadership on this important piece of legislation.

And so, you face this coercion.

The detention issue, delay of docks, is the 800-pound gorilla in any meaningful safety discussion in this country.

Yes, I appreciate that. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Mississippi. The Federal Debt

I wonder if my colleague from Mississippi will yield at this time.

I'm going to yield my time.

Somebody must be doing something right in the fact that we've not had these incidents I mentioned as in the other four locations.

It seems that the rulemaking should be different than the rulemaking with regard to the construction of toys or a new way of looking at labor laws.

I'm glad to be joining you in that position on the Subcommittee.

Hurricane Katrina clearly demonstrated both the devastating power of hurricanes as well as the havoc they can wreak on homeowners.

We share Senator Wicker's goal of ensuring timely and fair claims payments to victims of natural disasters.

Senator Wicker has taken a constructive approach to a very complex issue, and we appreciate his hard work.

Senator Wicker recently introduced the COASTAL Act, (S. 1091), which proposes a new approach to adjusting total losses.

This is the approach that Senator Wicker's bill takes and it is one I believe that the Committee should take care to continue and to clarify in the bill's legislation language.

Senator Wicker's COASTAL Act asks the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration to form partnerships with private entities.

I believe that a Standardized Loss Allocation model as Senator Wicker's COASTAL Act envisions is such a solution.

It needs to be addressed in any reauthorization.

That is not the way the Flood Insurance Program works, and I am mystified as to why banks and NFIP do not work together to enforce this requirement as aggressively as banks enforce the other types of insurance.

If there is a levee, surely the property owner should get some reduced premium because that levee is there.

I think you would concede that the current program does not work when it comes to the wind versus water claims in a slab situation.