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 Mitt Romney (R-UT) along with U.S. Representatives Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Richard Hudson (R-NC) called on the Biden administration...

WASHINGTON – Today, 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. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) held a press conference to discuss their groundbreaking Lowering Education Costs and Debt Act, a...

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), John Cornyn (R-TX), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), and Tim Scott (R-SC) introduced the groundbreaking Lowering Education Costs and Debt Act, a package of five bills aimed at...

WASHINGTON – Tomorrow, June 14th, 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. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) will hold a press conference to discuss their legislative solution to address the...

  WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, raised concerns to Department of Labor (DOL) Acting Secretary Julie Su regarding the stalled labor negotiations at West Coast ports, which have resulted in work stoppages and decreased...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, is seeking answers from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on its failure to propose rules on worker accommodations as required by the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). Cassidy was the...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Susan Collins (R-ME), and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) raised concerns to Acting Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Julie Su after reports indicate DOL is failing to process H-2B guest worker visas...

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 the youth mental health crisis. Click here to watch the hearing live.  Cassidy’s speech as prepared for delivery can be found below: Thank you,...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, blasted President Biden’s veto of the Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution overturning the administration’s student loan scheme, which would transfer up to $20,000 in student loan...

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), and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) urged U.S. Department of Education (ED) Secretary Miguel Cardona to abandon the agency’s unfair student loan schemes and instead focus on...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) are seeking answers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) following the suicide deaths of two youth participants who were involved in a NIH-funded study that observed...

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 U.S. Senate passage of his Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn President Biden’s student debt cancelation and the loan repayment pause,...

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 U.S. Senate floor ahead of the passage of a procedural vote on his Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn President Biden’s student debt transfer scheme and the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-IA), ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, penned an op-ed on Fox News blasting President Biden’s student loan schemes, which are estimated to cost taxpayers...

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 child care in America. Click here to watch the hearing live.  Thank you, Chair Sanders. Child care is far too expensive for families who need it....

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Ron Wyden (D-OR), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Ben Cardin (D-MD), and Todd Young (R-IN) introduced legislation to help break up the monopoly contract currently held by the United Network for Organ...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, raised concerns over the potential use of taxpayer dollars to create partnerships between schools and abortion providers like Planned Parenthood. This comes after Cassidy rebuked the Biden...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, is attempting to uncover answers following the deaths of two migrant children in Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) custody and why the Department did not directly notify Republicans on the HELP...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, rebuked President Biden’s new Title IX proposed rule that forces schools to allow biological males to compete in women’s sports or risk losing federal funds. Cassidy raised concerns that...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Ted Budd (R-NC) expressed concerns to Acting Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Julie Su regarding the Department’s bias against American farmers while under her leadership. This comes...