Ranking Member's Press

WASHINGTON – Last week, West Monroe Mayor Staci Albritton Mitchell and Louisiana Representative Michael Charles Echols appeared before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee to discuss Steward Health Care’s financial mismanagement of Glenwood Regional Medical Center in West Monroe, LA.   In the hearing, Mitchell and...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Chris Coons (D-DE) introduced legislation to reauthorizes and strengthen AmeriCorps programs, which provide vital national service opportunities to more than 200,000 Americans each year in thousands of...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, is demanding accountability from the Department of Labor (DOL) following a new report showing serious concerns that American energy workers are being prevented from and experiencing delays in receiving crucial...

WASHINGTON – At today’s hearing on Steward Health Care, 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, announced that the Committee will consider a resolution to hold Steward Health CEO Dr. Ralph de la Torre in...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Jack Reed (D-RI) introduced a bipartisan resolution to designate September 2024 as National Literacy Month.  “Our students deserve better. Unless reading proficiency improves, we are at risk of losing an...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, raised concerns over the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) delays in implementing his Securing the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Act, legislation which streamlines the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, held a roundtable to discuss the state of K-12 education and the need to innovate to ensure student success. U.S. Senators Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Katie Britt (R-AL), and Joni Ernst (R-IA) also participated in...

WASHINGTON – Tomorrow, September 10, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, will host a roundtable to discuss ways to innovate within K-12 education to improve student success. Specifically, the roundtable will include panelists from around the country who will...

WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, September 10, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, will host a roundtable to discuss ways to innovate within K-12 education to improve student success. Specifically, the roundtable will include panelists from around the country who will...

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 Steward Health CEO Dr. Ralph de la Torre defying a congressional subpoena to testify in front of the HELP Committee on the company’s financial mismanagement of its...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, wrote an op-ed in Fox News slamming the Biden-Harris administration for its failure to protect migrant children from abuse and exploitation. This horrific treatment is directly linked to Joe Biden and Kamala...

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 Committee Chair Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to hold a hearing to investigate Southwest Key Programs Inc., an Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) contractor, over allegations of sexual abuse of...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, blasted a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) final rule that dramatically increases the cost of federal Head Start programs, in violation of federal law, and when fully implemented will prevent...

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 resignation of Dr. Minouche Shafik as Columbia University President.   “The Columbia president clearly mishandled the protests and the threats to Jewish students. The...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, along with U.S. Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued statements on the new Government Accountability Office report showing that as of...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, is urging the Department of Education (DeptEd) Office of Inspector General (OIG) to investigate the use of federal funds by colleges and universities to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideology on...

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 Biden-Harris administration’s announcement that the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form for next school year will for the second year in a row not be...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and 21 other Republican senators urged National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) President Charlie Baker to update its student-athlete policy to ensure only biologically female...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Thom Tillis (R-NC) called on Department of Education (DeptEd) Inspector General Sandra D. Bruce to investigate Education Secretary Miguel Cardona over a potential violation of the Hatch Act...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Mitt Romney (R-UT), Tim Scott (R-SC), and Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced the Student Loan Accountability Act, legislation to prohibit the Biden-Harris administration from transferring student loan debt onto...