Ranking Member's Press

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, James Lankford (R-OK), Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-KS), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), and Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) requested the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) conduct an audit of safety standards at...

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 K-12 education. Click here to watch the hearing live.  Cassidy’s speech as prepared for delivery can be found below: Thank you, Chair Sanders. If we are speaking about...

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 his vote to oppose Democrats’ political show vote on in-vitro fertilization (IVF), their latest attempt to misinform and scare voters ahead of the November election.  “The...

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 Supreme Court’s decision in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA.   “The Court did not weigh in on the merits of the case, but the fact remains this is a high risk...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Mike Braun (R-IN), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), and 28 Republican colleagues introduced a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution of disapproval to repeal the Department of Labor’s (DOL) final rule that...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), and 33 Republican colleagues introduced a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution of disapproval to protect Title IX from a radical Biden administration rule that tramples on...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, blasted the National Institutes of Health (NIH) following reports that it is using federal taxpayer dollars to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hiring practices in certain research...

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 to discuss the reauthorization of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). Click here to watch the hearing live.  Cassidy’s speech as prepared for delivery...

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 44 Senate colleagues introduced a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) final rule endangering the safety and wellbeing...

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 Department of Labor (DOL) for illegally withholding $800 million in federal funding from the State of Florida as retaliation against the state’s recent efforts to protect workers from union...

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 his vote to oppose the Democrats’ so-called “Right to Contraception Act,” legislation that is so broad it promotes chemical abortion drugs and disregards the conscience rights...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, requested feedback from stakeholders on ways to modernize federal law to allow independent workers access to portable workplace benefits like retirement and health care.   At least 27 million Americans...

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 Democrat-led hearing on abortion. Click here to watch the hearing live.  Cassidy’s speech as prepared for delivery can be found below: Thank you, Chair Sanders.  Let’s table set:...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and U.S. Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, blasted the Biden administration for illegally obstructing the Government Accountability Office (GAO)...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, requested information from the National Mediation Board (NMB) following a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that the agency has failed to implement crucial reforms to secure sensitive...

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 how President Biden has weaponized his executive authority over U.S. labor and employment policy to strip workers of opportunity, flexibility, pay, and protection against...

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 markup of several public health bills. Click here to watch the executive session live.  Cassidy’s speech as prepared for delivery can be found below: Thank you, Chair...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, launched an inquiry into Tutor.com amid concerns that its users’ sensitive data could be used and exploited by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Tutor.com is owned by Primavera Capital Group, a Chinese...

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 Health and Human Services’ (HHS) proposed rule that violates federal law, dramatically increases the cost of federal Head Start programs, and eliminates opportunities for 110,700...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and U.S. Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, led 129 lawmakers in urging the Department of Education (DeptEd) to withdraw its latest attempt to...