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Washington, D.C. – In the first day of the Senate Health, Education, Labor andPensions (HELP) Committee’s consideration of the Kennedy health care bill, U.S.Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the HELP Committee, ledRepublicans in focusing on the Kennedy bill’s high costs and failure to cover tens ofmillions of...

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee today begins consideration of the Kennedy bill, which preliminary analysis shows will cost over $1 trillion, leave tens of millions without coverage, and cause millions more to lose their health insurance. “Why are we rushing to act on this bill? Asking the Committee to...

Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, in his address to the American Medical Association, President Obama said, “Health care reform must be and will be deficit neutral in the next decade.” In light of the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the Kennedy-Dodd health care bill, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee and Member of the Finance Committee, and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Senior Member of HELP and Finance Committees, today said they were disappointed that Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services...

Washington, D.C. –U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today reacted to the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) assessment that savings pledged by health care groups who met with President Obama at the White House last month simply are not...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today criticized the Kennedy-Dodd health care bill for banning new incentives for employers to lower health care premiums for employees who exercise regularly, eat healthy diets and do not smoke.“The...

Washington, D.C. – According to estimates released today by the Congressional BudgetOffice (CBO), the Kennedy-Dodd health care bill will cost more than $1 trillion and forceapproximately 23 million Americans to lose their current health insurance. “Democrats keep saying that if you like the care you have you can keep it, but the...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today continued his push back against Senate Democrats’ efforts to force action on the controversial Dodd-Kennedy health care bill before even receiving cost estimates from the Congressional Budget...

Washington, D.C. –U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of theSenate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee and the Senate’sonly accountant, today criticized wasteful spending in a health care reform bill releasedby HELP Committee Democrats this week. “The Kennedy-Dodd bill will pave sidewalks, build...

Washington, D.C. –U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today said that the Democrats’ proposal to expand Medicaid would force about 50 million Americans into a health care program that may not meet their needs and drive up costs for the rest of the...

Washington, D.C. – After meeting with President Obama today to discuss health care reform, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, said he remains committed to developing a bipartisan reform bill but warned that locking Republicans out of the process won’t...

Washington, D.C. –U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today said the HELP Committee Democrats’ health care proposal would lay the groundwork for Washington bureaucrats to ration and deny life-saving treatments. “The Kennedy-Dodd bill would give...

Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today said that he will workaggressively to achieve a bipartisan solution on health care reform, a final product he said willneed to look “very different” than the draft legislation released by HELP Committee Democratstoday. “For health care reform to work and have broad...

Washington, D.C. –U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today said he strongly opposes creating a government-run health care program that would force millions of Americans to lose the health insurance they currently have and join a plan where Washington...

Washington, D.C. – After meeting with other Senate leaders to discuss healthcare reform, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) today again called on Congress to takethe time to reach a bipartisan agreement on health care reform and warned against agovernment takeover of the health care system. “I am disappointed in the focus that some...

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Ranking Member of theSenate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today denouncedHELP Committee approval of a bill requiring the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) toregulate tobacco, arguing that the bill would do nothing to stop anyone from smoking orhelp them quit, and would...

Washington, D.C. –U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today said that sound science, not politics, should guide decisions on regulating or banning addictive tobacco flavorings, particularly menthol, used to market cigarettes to kids. “Tobacco companies use...

Washington, D.C. – At today’s Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP)Committee markup on a bill requiring the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve andregulate tobacco products, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) offered an amendment that wouldshift that responsibility to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the SenateHealth, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today commended the Senate for its quick confirmation of Dr. Margaret Hamburg to be Commissioner of Food and Drugs. “Dr. Hamburg is the right person for a tough job,” Enzi said. “FDA needs...

Washington, D.C. – With the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee set to debate this week a bill requiring the Food and Drug Administration to approve and regulate tobacco products, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) today said that putting an implied FDA seal of approval on tobacco is no way to wipe out...