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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, U.S. Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ), U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), and U.S. Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) led 108 Republican lawmakers in filing an amicus...

METAIRIE – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led a field hearing in Jefferson Parish, LA on improving treatment for mental health and substance use disorders. In recognition of Cassidy’s efforts to better Americans’ mental health, the Treatment Communities of...

BATON ROUGE – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led a field hearing in Baton Rouge, LA on how Congress can make health care affordable for American families. Cassidy recently unveiled the Money and Value for Patients (MVP) agenda to lower health costs and...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will hold two field hearings in Louisiana this week to discuss how Congress can make health care affordable and improve mental health and substance use disorder treatment. The Committee will hear from a variety of perspectives within the health care system,...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate, Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Jim Banks (R-IN), Tim Scott (R-SC), and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) applaud the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) recent proposed rule giving independent workers much needed clarity and consistency. This reverses...