Press Releases

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 – Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ranking Member Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.) announced today that they have reached an agreement to markup legislation reauthorizing the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT)...

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 and protect access to gene therapies for Americans with ultra-rare diseases.  Reports show that by the end of 2034 over one million patients will...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, blasted the Biden administration following the release of their latest proposal for a new illegal student loan scheme that attempts to transfer onto taxpayers up to $20,000 in student debt for households...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and 17 Republican senators slammed the Department of Labor’s (DOL) proposed rule that allows unions to coerce and pressure temporary foreign agriculture workers into unionization.   The H-2A visa program...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Joni Ernst (R-IA), and 30 Republican senators urged the Biden administration to address antisemitism toward Jewish children in K-12 schools amid rising rates in the aftermath of Hamas’ deadly attacks...

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 reported outbreaks of respiratory diseases in China. During the COVID-19 pandemic, China intentionally withheld information from the world and obstructed access to...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, blasted the Department of Labor’s (DOL) proposed Qualified Professional Asset Manager (QPAM) policy that allows the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to weaponize its criminal enforcement power against...

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 (DOL) following alarming reports of delayed medical care to American energy workers under the Energy Employees Occupational Injury Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA).   The...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, called out Planned Parenthood’s opaque reporting on gender transition services and requests information on whether any taxpayer funds support these experimental and potentially harmful...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 – In letters signed by every Democratic member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sens. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Ben Ray...

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 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) to open an investigation into the use of the federal Community Health Center Fund (CHCF) to provide health...

WASHINGTON – Following a letter by U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, notifying the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that they were out of compliance with the Congressional Review Act (CRA) 60-day threshold rule, the NLRB announced today that it will be...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, spoke on the U.S. Senate floor ahead of a vote on his Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn President Biden’s new income-driven repayment (IDR) rule, which will result in a majority of...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Rand Paul (R-KY), ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, blasted the Department of Education (ED) for misusing the “Controlled Unclassified Information”...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement following a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that the Biden administration was prepared to transfer $430 billion in student loan debt onto taxpayers with few guardrails to...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, requested information from two of the largest community health center (CHC) systems as part of his ongoing investigation into how health care providers use revenue generated from the 340B Drug Pricing Program....

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 – Ahead of a vote on Senate Joint Resolution 43, that would deny student debt relief to millions of Americans, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, gave remarks today on the floor of the U.S. Senate urging his colleagues to vote "no" and instead work 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 U.S. Senate Democrats voting against his Congressional Review Act (CRA) to overturn President Biden’s new income-driven repayment (IDR) rule. This rule will result in a...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate HELP Committee, introduced the Helping Young Americans Save for Retirement Act. The legislation would help more Americans ages 18 to 20 years old access...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, secured a commitment from Teamsters President Sean O’Brien to return $127 million in taxpayer dollars that was wrongfully paid to the Central States Pension Fund as part of the Democrats’ pension bailout. The...