Ranking Member's Press

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...

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 voting against the re-nomination of current National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Chair Lauren McFerran, an extreme Biden-Harris nominee who has orchestrated...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Ted Cruz (R-TX), James Lankford (R-OK), Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), and Mike Lee (R-UT) are demanding answers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) after reports found that...

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 Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) regulation of American food. Click here to watch the hearing live.  Cassidy’s speech as prepared for delivery can be found...

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 after the Biden-Harris administration announced it will continue its contract with Maximus to run Medicare call centers, preserving a call center in Bogalusa, LA that employs 650...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and James Lankford (R-OK) filed an amicus curiae brief to the U.S Supreme Court in Oklahoma v. Department of Health and Human Services. This brief comes following the Biden administration’s decision to withhold...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Mark Warner (D-VA), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) introduced legislation to strengthen cybersecurity in the health care sector and protect Americans’ health data. This legislation is a...

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 after the U.S. Senate unanimously passed his legislation requiring the Department of Education (DeptEd) to make the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form available 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 after President Trump’s announcement that he will nominate Linda McMahon for Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education.  “I agree with President Trump's statement that we need...

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 detailing the Biden-Harris administration’s failures to secure the southern border resulting in the exploitation and abuse of migrant children.    This report comes after Cassidy’s over...

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 after a federal court invalidated the Biden-Harris overtime rule. This regulation would have increased the overtime pay threshold by 65 percent, eliminating jobs and raising prices on...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Susan Collins (R-ME) are seeking answers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on its continued failures to produce accurate national jobs data, which has serious impacts on the American...

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 following the announcement that he will be chair of the HELP Committee in the 119th Congress. Cassidy served as ranking member of the Committee in the previous Congress.   “It is an honor to...

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 following President Trump’s announcement that he will nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).   “RFK Jr. has championed issues...

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 newest Biden–Harris scheme to transfer student debt onto American taxpayers. Specifically, this new policy attempts to empower the Biden-Harris administration to unilaterally cancel student...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, urged the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to properly investigate antisemitism and discrimination against Jewish workers following the October 7 terror attack on Israel.  “EEOC needs to address...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, launched an investigation into major medical organizations promoting the use of puberty blockers and irreversible gender transition surgeries for children. This comes following recently published research...