WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release: Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., the highest-ranking Republican on the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, today in a U.S. Senate floor speech called on Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to immediately pass the U.S. Senate's defense appropriations bill. Failing to do so, Senator Wicker said, would mean election year politics are Senator Schumer's priority instead of bolstering our national security more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Rep. Eric Sorensen, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: MOLINE, IL Congressman Eric Sorensen (IL-17), U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) today announced $8 million in federal funding for Rock Island County Metropolitan Mass Transit District (MetroLINK) through the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). This grant will be used to make land-side improvements along the Mississippi Riverfront and for a new, zero more PR