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, delivered remarks during today’s hearing on labor unions. Click here to watch the hearing live.  Cassidy’s speech as prepared for delivery can be found below: Thank you, Chair Sanders. Frankly, it is puzzling...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led a bipartisan roundtable looking into the rising rates of anti-Semitic harassment and violence on colleges campuses. Cassidy was joined by U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Ted Budd (R-NC), Bob Casey...

WASHINGTON – Tomorrow, November 9th, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, will lead a roundtable to look into the rising rates of anti-Semitic harassment and violence on colleges campuses. The roundtable will also review the Biden administration’s legal...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Joe Manchin (D-WV), Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), as well as U.S. Representatives John James (R-MI), Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, 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 bringing attention to the over 300 substance-abuse prevention and treatment, mental health and other policy organizations that have called on the HELP Committee to take up and...

WASHINGTON – On November 9th, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, will lead a roundtable to look into the rising rates of anti-Semitic harassment and violence on colleges campuses. The roundtable will also review the Biden administration’s legal responsibility...

WASHINGTON – Today U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), and 26 senators urged the Department of Labor (DOL) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to extend the public comment period on the departments’ new H-2A regulations and allow...

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) launched a bipartisan working group to examine and propose potential legislative solutions in the HELP Committee jurisdiction to...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Susan Collins (R-ME), Mike Braun (R-IN), Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-KS), Mitt Romney (R-UT), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), and Ted Budd (R-NC) urged HELP Committee Chair Sanders to hold a HELP...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and nine Republican colleagues blasted the Department of Labor’s (DOL) new proposed rule that dramatically increases the overtime pay threshold by 55 percent, reducing jobs and raising prices for American...

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’s (DOL) proposed rule that attempts to expand DOL’s jurisdiction over financial advisors, drastically increasing their cost of compliance and potentially reducing access to...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Joni Ernst (R-IA), and 14 Republican colleagues urged the Biden administration to protect Jewish college students amid rising antisemitic incidents and attacks on college campuses in the aftermath of Hamas’...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced they will introduce a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) new joint employer rule, which forces liability on...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, John Boozman (R-AR), Angus King (I-ME), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Chris Murphy (D-CT), John Hickenlooper (D-CO), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) introduced a U.S. Senate resolution recognizing October...

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 executive session on four Biden administration nominees. The nominees include Dr. Monica Bertagnolli to be Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Charlotte Burrows...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and John Hickenlooper (D-CO) introduced the 21st Century Dyslexia Act. This legislation works to incorporate the modern, scientific understanding of dyslexia into federal statute and prevent the harm...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced the bipartisan Stop Campus Hazing Act to improve the reporting and prevention of hazing on college campuses. Specifically, this legislation requires hazing incidents...

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) for failing to provide details on its new policy that compels businesses to produce information related to union activity beyond the scope of DOL’s authority. Earlier...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, expressed serious concerns following the recent data breach at the genetic testing company 23andMe that resulted in the unauthorized disclosure of 1.3 million users’ sensitive genetic and personal...

WASHINGTON – Today, 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 Department of Labor (DOL) for failing to provide answers on its efforts to combat the rising exploitation of migrant children.   Earlier this year, Cassidy demanded...