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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 the HELP Chair’s fringe 32-hour workweek proposal. Click here to watch the hearing live.  Cassidy’s speech as prepared for delivery can be found below: Thank you,...

WASHINGTON, March 14 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today led the committee in a hearing titled, “Workers Should Benefit from New Technology and Increased Productivity: The Need for a 32-Hour Work Week with No Loss in Pay.” Sanders’ remarks, as prepared for delivery,...

WASHINGTON, March 13 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) today announced that this Thursday he will introduce legislation to establish a standard 32-hour workweek in America with no loss in pay – an important step toward ensuring that workers share in the massive increase...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, requested information from stakeholders on ways to improve regulation of clinical tests in the United States.   Clinical tests are essential health care resources, informing 70 percent of all clinical...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, announced 78 organizations have written in support of his Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn President Biden’s worker classification rule that threatens the gig economy and jeopardizes...

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 U.S. Senate vote to confirm Loren Sweatt to serve as a member of the National Mediation Board (NMB). Sweatt was previously reported out of the HELP Committee by a...

WASHINGTON, March 7 – Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Ranking Member Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.), with Sens. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Chairman of the Special Committee on Aging, Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Ranking Member of the Special Committee on Aging, Tim Kaine (D-Va.),...

WASHINGTON, March 7 – Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Ranking Member Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.), with Sens. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Chairman of the Special Committee on Aging, Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Ranking Member of the Special Committee on Aging, Tim Kaine (D-Va.),...

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 to discuss the reauthorization of the Older Americans Act (OAA). The OAA was last reauthorized in 2020 and will expire on September 30, 2024. Click here to watch the...

WASHINGTON, March 7 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, on Thursday issued the following statement after Boehringer Ingelheim announced that it would cap patient copays for all of its inhalers at $35 starting on June 1, 2024. The company also announced that it will lower the...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Bernie Sanders (I-VT), chair of the HELP Committee, Susan Collins (R-ME), Bob Casey (D-PA), Mike Braun (R-IN), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), and Ed Markey (D-MA) requested input from...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn the Department of Labor’s (DOL) final worker classification rule that threatens the gig economy and jeopardizes the ability of 27 million...

WASHINGTON –  U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, highlighted the more than 170 organizations that wrote in support of his bipartisan Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) new joint employer rule,...

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 report, ahead of the State of the Union, detailing the devastating impacts of President Biden’s failed policies on American families.   Since President Biden took office, real wages for all...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, slammed the Biden administration’s failure to address the unprecedented rise in the exploitation of children for cheap labor. In 2023, the Department of Labor (DOL) found 5,792 minors working in violation...

WASHINGTON, March 5 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, on Thursday, March 7 at 11:00 a.m. ET will lead the committee in a hearing titled, “The Older Americans Act: Supporting Efforts to Meet the Needs of Seniors.”“Today in America, it is no secret that too many seniors are...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and 16 Republican colleagues raised serious concerns to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Monica Bertagnolli, M.D. following President Biden’s proposal that attempts to allow agencies to seize...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and member of the Senate Finance Committee, released a statement highlighting several provisions secured in the March 8th government funding bill. The legislation includes a responsible $270 million...

WASHINGTON, March 3 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), released the following statement on the minibus agreement announced Sunday by Congressional leadership: Over the past year, one of my top legislative priorities as Chairman of the Senate HELP Committee has been to...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, rebuked the Department of Labor’s (DOL) proposed rule restricting American workers’ ability to access quality, affordable health care for themselves and their families. Specifically, the proposed...