Ranking Member's Press

Washington, D.C. – Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee today defeated anamendment from Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) that would have driven down health care costsand given Americans the freedom to choose affordable health insurance options that meettheir needs and budgets. “Every American should have the freedom to choose a low-cost,...

Finance Committee health care bill to protect states facing budget shortfalls from unfunded,mandatory Medicaid expansions. Democrats rejected the amendment on party lines. “The unfunded, mandatory Medicaid expansion in the Finance bill is going to bankruptour states,” Enzi said. “The bill already provides additional funding to a...

WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, today released the following letter calling on Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius to rescind the “gag order” issued by CMS this week.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today led his fellow Republican HELP Committee members in requesting an explanation regarding possible violations of federal law at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Enzi and his colleagues...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., today issued the following statement: “I am disappointed that deadlines took precedence over agreement of the bipartisan group of Finance Committee members, as we worked on a final health care bill. All of the Senators in this group have been working tirelessly and in good faith, and we...

Washington, D.C. – Following President Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress on health care reform this evening, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., urged Democratic leaders not to put an early end to productive, bipartisan health care talks, which he said offer the best opportunity to achieve meaningful health care...

“My position has been consistent from the start. I haven’t walked away from ourshared goal of health care reform or compromised the original principles I outlined asessential to any plan for reform. I opposed the Senate HELP Committee bill that passed on astraight party line vote, and I opposed the House bill reported out of Committee...

Washington, D.C. –U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., today said that if the White Houseand Democrat leadership in the Senate choose to shut Republicans and moderateDemocrats out of the health care debate, their health care plan would fail. “If the Democrats choose to go it alone, their health care plan will fail because theAmerican people...

Washington, D.C. – A government-run option for health care is not an option for U.S.Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., a key figure in the health care debate. Enzi, Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP)Committee and member of the Senate Finance Committee, repeated his opposition to agovernment-run health care plan...

Enzi Statement on The Passing of Eunice Kennedy Shriver I would like to express my deepest sympathy to my friend Senator Kennedy and to the entire Kennedy family on the passing of Eunice Kennedy Shriver. They have lost a very special presence in their lives, a woman of amazing strength of mind, heart and character who saw the needs of people with...

Washington, D.C. – Though two weeks have passed since Democrats approved a partisan health care bill in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, a complete copy of the final bill as amended in Committee remains unavailable for the public or members of the Senate to review, and the bill’s supporters have yet to...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) today slammed the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee's rubber stamp approval of a healthcare reform bill that nonpartisan experts at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) say will drive up health care costs, increase the national deficit by more than $1 trillion and...