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September 25, 2008

Wicker Demands FEMA Respond to Governor Barbour’s Request for Individual Assistance for Gustav

U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) today sent a letter to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) requesting a response to Governor Haley Barbour’s request for individual federal disaster assistance following Hurricane Gustav. In a letter to FEMA administrator David Paulison, Wicker expressed disappointment in FEMA’s inability to respond to Gov. Barbour’s written request for hurricane…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
September 25, 2008

Hearings on PEER Report involving paid lobbyists by state agencies headed by Sens. Flowers & Baria

The recent release of a PEER Report concerning State Agencies using paid lobbyists to lobby the Mississippi Legislature has prompted an investigation by the Senate Ethics Committee chaired by Senator Merle Flowers. Senator Flowers has appointed a sub-committee on Governmental Accountability to investigate the practice and to make recommendations to the full committee. It is…