Ranking Member's Press

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement on his Stop Campus Hazing Act being signed into law earlier this week. This legislation, passed unanimously by Congress, improves the reporting and prevention of hazing on college campuses....

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 on the Department of Education officially withdrawing its backup student loan scheme to transfer student debt onto American taxpayers (part 1, part 2). Specifically, these...

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 unanimously passing his Stop Campus Hazing Act to improve the reporting and prevention of hazing on college campuses. Cassidy introduced this legislation...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement after his legislation requiring the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form to be available on October 1 was signed into law earlier today.  “The Biden-Harris FAFSA delays...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), chair of the HELP Committee, released the following statement on the unanimous vote in the Senate last night to pass the Older Americans Act (OAA) – critical legislation that...