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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Ron Johnson (R-WI), Mike Lee (R-UT), Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-KS), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Tim Scott (R-SC) launched a Senate Republican working group to examine potential legislative reforms...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Keith Sonderling to be Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor by a final vote of 53 to 46. The HELP Committee previously approved his...

WASHINGTON – Tomorrow, March 13, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will hold a confirmation hearing on the nomination of Dr. David Weldon to be Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The hearing will take place directly after the HELP Committee votes on the nominations of  Dr. Jayanta...

WASHINGTON – Tomorrow, March 13, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will consider the nominations of Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya to be Director of the National Institutes of Health, and Dr. Martin Makary to be Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.      Agenda: Nomination of Jayanta Bhattacharya to serve...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and U.S. Representative Robert B. Aderholt (R-AL), chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, along with 64 Republican lawmakers filed an amicus...