State Representative Michael Janus played a significant role in authoring the bill this year  which dedicated a stretch of Highway 90 in honor of civil rights leader Dr. Gilbert Mason, Sr.  Janus also serves as Senator Cochran’s South Mississippi Field Representative for the campaign. 

View video footage below of State Rep. Michael Janus.  Janus was invited to make remarks at the ceremony along with Senator Cochran.

Senator Cochran spoke at MDOT’s Dedication ceremony honoring civil rights leader Dr. Gilbert R. Mason.  View video footage below of Cochran’s remarks:

For more information about the event, click here or visit our Events section.
 

View the video footage below of Senator Cochran’s speech at Pontotoc’s 4th of July celebration.

Video footage by Micah Ginn

Senator Cochran spoke on the U.S. Senate floor yesterday urging fellow colleagues to approve legislation that offers a fix for physician Medicare payment.   Click here to visit the Senate Republican Conference’s Web site which displays a video of Cochran’s remarks on the Senate floor.

Click here to check out photographs of the MDOT sign dedication ceremony in Biloxi, Mississippi, honoring civil rights leader Dr. Gilbert R. Mason.  Senator Cochran made remarks at the event along with Michael Janus, State Representative and South Mississippi Field Rep. for Cochran.   Janus played a significant role in authoring a bill this year dedicating a stretch of Highway 90 in honor of Dr. Gilbert Mason.

Photo by Pat Morris

Senator Cochran addresses the crowd at the MDOT ceremony honoring Dr. Gilbert R. Mason, Sr.

For more photos of the event, visit our Events section.

Senator Cochran spoke on the U.S. Senate floor in opposition to climate change legislation in early June.  He shared his concerns about the Climate Security Act of 2008.  Read some of his remarks below.

“Mr. President, My staff members and I hear from Mississippians every day about the crippling effects of high energy prices. We all understand the need for increasing clean energy supplies and I hope that we will continue to work to do that, and to develop other innovative solutions to this great problem. But the bill we are now considering will not accomplish that goal.
 
Instead, this legislation will have a detrimental effect on our economy. It will contribute to higher overall costs of living, and it will be especially harmful to lower income families.
 
According to projections by the Energy Information Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency, energy costs are projected to rise because of this legislation. Energy prices are already at an all time high. We cannot afford to increase these costs even further. By 2030, increased costs for delivered coal could range between 405 percent and 804 percent. Natural gas prices could rise between 34 percent and 107 percent. And, gasoline prices could go up to between 17 percent and 41 percent. Although the substitute amendment we are considering imposes yearly cost ceilings, these high prices will still be realized unless improbable advancements in alternative energy production such as 70 new nuclear reactors and 68 billion gallons of ethanol are produced.
 
Various projections of this bill show that not only will prices increase, Americans could lose jobs as industries struggle to keep costs down. I’m proud of the new era of manufacturing that Mississippi is entering. I don’t want Mississippians to lose jobs we have fought so hard to obtain. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy Information Administration suggest that this bill could reduce the United States’ gross domestic product by as much as 7 percent by 2050, and could reduce the United States’ manufacturing output by almost 10 percent in 2030. A reduction in output means that industry will need fewer workers in order to keep their costs down. A need for fewer workers will result in job losses, and unemployment rates in my State are already too high…”

Click here to continue reading Cochran’s remarks on the Climate Security Act of 2008.

Click here to check out our events section for coverage and more photographs of the ribbon cutting ceremony for the launch of the NOAA Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System (PORTS®) in Gulfport, Mississippi.

Photo by Patrick Fink of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Senator Cochran participates in the presentation of the PORTS key to the Port of Gulfport.

Senator Cochran plans to speak at the MDOT dedication ceremony honoring Dr. Gilbert R. Mason on Saturday.  A portion of U.S. Highway 90 will be dedicated to Dr. Mason, a noted civil rights leader on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.  Dr. Gilbert Mason was a dedicated physician who worked tirelessly to promote equality and to provide quality healthcare to all Mississippians no matter racial or ethnic background. 

Michael Janus, State Representative and South Mississippi Field Rep. for Cochran, will also speak at the ceremony.  Janus played a significant role in helping pass legislation to designate the portion of Highway 90 to honor Dr. Mason.  Read House Bill 207 below.

Dr. Gilbert R. Mason, Sr.

In the 2008 session of the Mississippi Legislature, House Bill 207 was passed designating a portion of U.S. Highway 90 as “Dr. Gilbert R. Mason Sr. Memorial Highway.”

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

SECTION 1. (1) That portion of U.S. Highway 90 in the city of Biloxi beginning at Rodenberg Avenue and extending easterly to Porter Avenue, is designated and shall be known as the “Dr. Gilbert R. Mason, Sr., Memorial Highway.”
(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching the segment of highway described in subsection (1) of this section.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Watch the new video footage of Senator Cochran’s key note address at the Dedication of the L.Q.C. Lamar House in Oxford, Mississippi.  For more information and photographs of the event, click here.

Video footage by Micah Ginn