Ranking Member's Press

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced legislation to lower prescription drug costs for American patients . The Reforming Evergreening and Manipulation that Extends Drug Years (REMEDY) Act, promotes...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered a floor speech on HELP Committee Chair Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) decision to hold an off-the-floor HELP Committee vote on three Biden-Harris labor nominees, including current National Labor...

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 the Biden-Harris administration’s Title IX rule going into effect tomorrow, August 1. This policy redefines “sex” to include gender identity, eliminating legal protections for women and...

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 Committee vote on the Older Americans Act (OAA) Reauthorization Act, the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education, and Support (CARES) Act of 2024, and the...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, gave remarks on the HELP Committee vote to subpoena Steward Health CEO Dr. Ralph de la Torre to testify on the company’s financial mismanagement of its hospitals. The Committee approved the subpoena on a...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Joni Ernst (R-IA) introduced the Restoring Civility on Campus Act, which ensures universities and the Department of Education (DeptEd) immediately address civil rights complaints if a student...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced the Upholding Standards of Accountability (USA) Act to rein in the executive branch and ensure federal agencies are held accountable to Congress. This bill comes as the Supreme Court recently...

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 National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) dropping its appeal to a recent federal ruling that vacated Biden’s joint-employer rule. The Biden rule forced liability 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 a federal appeals court temporarily blocking President Biden’s full income-driven repayment (IDR) scheme while litigation is ongoing. Last month, a separate federal judge...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, condemned the Biden administration’s refusal to provide a congressional briefing on its proposed rule to reschedule marijuana from Schedule I to III under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).   “Your...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, announced that the HELP Committee will vote next Thursday, July 25, to consider a subpoena to compel Steward Health CEO Dr. Ralph de la Torre to testify on the company’s financial mismanagement of its...

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, issued the following statement: “On Thursday, July 25th at 10AM, our committee will be holding a bipartisan vote to initiate an investigation into...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, is seeking information from the Department of Education (DeptEd) on its processing of Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) complaints, which may involve the unauthorized release of highly sensitive...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, demanded accountability from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for abusing its authority to influence union elections in favor of union organizers at the expense of American workers.   “These reports and...

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 nomination of Deva Kyle to become director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). The nomination would fill the vacancy created upon the completion of the prior...

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 medical debt. Click here to watch the hearing live.  Cassidy’s speech as prepared for delivery can be found below: Thank you, Chair Sanders, and thanks to all of our...

WASHINGTON – 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, urged the Department of Education (DeptEd) Office of Inspector General (OIG) to provide an...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, raised serious concerns with President Biden over the state of the Pensions Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). This comes as the PBGC director role remains vacant since former Director Gordon Hartogensis...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, urged the Biden administration to explain its delays in implementing and enforcing regulations to prevent health information blocking. Information blocking is any practice that is likely to interfere with...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and Ron Johnson (R-WI) hosted a roundtable entitled “The Exploitation Crisis: How the U.S. Government is Failing to Protect Migrant Children from Trafficking and Abuse.” The...