Press Releases

WASHINGTON, July 2 – President of the United States, Joe Biden, and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), Sen. Bernie Sanders, today released a joint op-ed calling on Novo Nordisk and other pharmaceutical companies to stop ripping off the American people and substantially reduce the price of Ozempic,...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, called on President Biden to take action following the failure of Gate Gourmet and the Employee Representative Council comprised of UNITE HERE and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters to reach a new...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, is requesting information from federal agencies under the HELP Committee’s jurisdiction on how they will comply with the Supreme Court’s overturning of the Chevron deference and how they plan to implement laws...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today released a statement in response to President Biden’s announcement that he is placing student loan borrowers, enrolled in or “eligible” for the SAVE income driven repayment plan, into administrative...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement following the Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. This ruling overturns the Court’s previous 1984 Chevron decision, which required federal courts to...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement following the Supreme Court’s decision in Moyle v. United States: “EMTALA was clearly intended to protect both pregnant women and their unborn children. Every state in the country...

WASHINGTON, June 25 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) today released a new report detailing the coordinated and growing effort to undermine, dismantle, and privatize the American public education system. This report comes after Sanders led the committee in a hearing last...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement following a federal court temporarily blocking a portion of President Biden’s income-driven repayment (IDR) scheme. This student loan scheme allows a majority of bachelor’s degree...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, called on HELP Chair Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to hold hearings to consider President Biden’s two current nominees for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), current NLRB Chair Lauren McFerran and Joshua...

WASHINGTON, June 21 – Amid record-breaking corporate profits and unprecedented corporate greed, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced he will soon introduce legislation that would impose a 95 percent windfall tax on the excessive profits of large corporations that are using inflation as an excuse to charge the American people outrageous prices on...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, James Lankford (R-OK), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Todd Young (R-IN), and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) urged the Department of Labor (DOL) to modify outdated and burdensome guidance to support states in preventing...

WASHINGTON, June 20 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), today led the committee in a hearing titled, “The Immediate and Long-Term Challenges Facing Public School Teachers: Low, Pay, Teacher Shortages, and Underfunded Public Schools.” Sanders’ remarks, as prepared for...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, James Lankford (R-OK), Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-KS), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), and Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) requested the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) conduct an audit of safety standards at...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered remarks during today’s hearing on K-12 education. Click here to watch the hearing live.  Cassidy’s speech as prepared for delivery can be found below: Thank you, Chair Sanders. If we are speaking about...

WASHINGTON, June 18 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, on Thursday, June 20 at 9:00 a.m. ET, will lead the committee in a hearing titled, “The Immediate and Long-Term Challenges Facing Public School Teachers: Low, Pay, Teacher Shortages, and Underfunded Public Schools.”“If...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement following his vote to oppose Democrats’ political show vote on in-vitro fertilization (IVF), their latest attempt to misinform and scare voters ahead of the November election.  “The...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement following the Supreme Court’s decision in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA.   “The Court did not weigh in on the merits of the case, but the fact remains this is a high risk...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Mike Braun (R-IN), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), and 28 Republican colleagues introduced a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution of disapproval to repeal the Department of Labor’s (DOL) final rule that...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), and 33 Republican colleagues introduced a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution of disapproval to protect Title IX from a radical Biden administration rule that tramples on...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, blasted the National Institutes of Health (NIH) following reports that it is using federal taxpayer dollars to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hiring practices in certain research...