Editing Roger Wicker (section)

===Tenure===
Assuming office in 1995, Wicker was president of the freshman class, which included 53 other new Republican representatives, elected as part of the [[Republican Revolution|1994 "Republican Revolution"]].<ref name=faststart/>

Wicker was a member of the [[United States House Committee on Appropriations|House Appropriations Committee]]. He was also deputy Republican [[Party whips of the United States House of Representatives|whip]].

In Congress, Wicker worked on issues related to medical research and on economic development for his home state. He advocated private-public partnerships to bring investment to rural areas. Wicker also worked for veterans' issues while serving as a member of the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee.<ref>[https://wicker.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=AboutRoger.Biography About Roger] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117042424/https://www.wicker.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=AboutRoger.Biography |date=November 17, 2020 }} from Wicker's official U.S. Senate website</ref> In his final year as representative, Wicker topped the list in [[Earmark (politics)|earmarks]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/03/congress.earmarks/index.html| title=They're back: Representatives reveal their earmarks| date=April 4, 2009| access-date=April 4, 2009| publisher=CNN| quote=The top earmark requester in the House last year—now Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi—has not yet posted any earmarks for this year.| archive-date=November 17, 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117042425/http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/03/congress.earmarks/index.html| url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2007, Wicker was criticized after securing a $6 million earmark for a defense company whose executives had made significant contributions to his campaign.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Mosk|first1=Matthew|title=Wicker's Earmark Elicits Criticism|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/15/AR2008011503355.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=July 13, 2014|date=January 16, 2009|archive-date=November 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117042414/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/15/AR2008011503355.html|url-status=live}}</ref>