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 markup of health care reauthorizations. Click here to watch the markup live.  Cassidy’s speech as prepared for delivery can be found below: Thank you, Chair Sanders. You know, we...

WASHINGTON – Today, 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, requested a Government Accountability Office (GAO) review of the Department of Education’s (ED)...

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 failure of the United Auto Workers (UAW) and three of the nation’s largest automakers to reach an agreement to renew employee contracts before contracts expired 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 HELP Committee Chair scheduling a September 21st markup on primary care legislation. Despite including drastic increases in federal spending, the announced legislation...

WASHINGTON – Today, 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), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Susan Collins (R-ME), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), and JD Vance (R-OH) introduced the Higher Wages for American Workers Act, legislation that would gradually raise...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee, Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-KS), Mike Braun (R-IN), and Ted Budd (R-NC) urged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to provide more information on its reorganization of the newly-unified Human Foods...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, demanded answers from the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) over the deaths of four migrant children in its custody since March 2023. Despite these tragic deaths, ORR has not announced any changes to...

WASHINGTON – Today, 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, urged the Department of Education (Department) to provide details on its methodology in...

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 stakeholders on ways to improve the privacy protections of health data to safeguard sensitive information while balancing the need to support medical research. Currently, health...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced the Advice and Consent Act to prevent the executive branch from circumventing Congress’ constitutional duty to confirm the Secretary of Labor. This comes as Julie Su’s nomination has lasted for...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, penned an op-ed on Fox News slammig  President Biden’s new income-driven repayment (IDR) rule, which will result in a majority of bachelor’s degree student loan borrowers not having to pay back even the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered remarks on the Senate floor blasting President Biden’s recent announcement of the first ten medications that will be subject to Medicare price negotiations established in the so-called Inflation...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a white paper on artificial intelligence (AI) and the technology’s potential benefits and risks to society. Additionally, Cassidy requested feedback from stakeholders on the role of government in...

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 the stalled nomination of Julie Su for Secretary of Labor. As of today, 175 days have elapsed since the Senate received Julie Su’s nomination, the longest any cabinet-level...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, spoke on the Senate floor on his Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn President Biden’s reckless income-driven repayment (IDR) rule, which will result in a majority of bachelor’s degree...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, John Thune (R-SD), John Cornyn (R-TX), and 14 Republican colleagues introduced a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn President Biden’s reckless income-driven repayment (IDR) rule, which...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, urged Department of Labor (DOL) Acting Secretary Julie Su to cease any further action to amend the...

WASHINGTON –  U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Tim Scott (R-SC), Jim Risch (R-ID), and 15 Republican colleagues raised concerns to Department of Education (ED) Secretary Miguel Cardona following new reports showing millions of dollars from Chinese...

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 National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to verify that it has officially terminated NLRB Member Gwynne Wilcox and removed her from all agency activities. This comes as Wilcox’s term on the NLRB...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) called out the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) for promoting the teaching of controversial, far-left ideology on topics like race and gender...