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, slammed President Biden and Vice President Harris for failing to take action to prevent a strike of unionized dockworkers at the East and Gulf Coast ports. Since June, negotiations have stalled between the ports...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, is requesting information from two drug manufacturers as part of his ongoing investigation into how covered entities use and generate revenue from the 340B Drug Pricing Program.     Under the 340B program, drug...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), chair of the HELP Committee, released a joint statement after the Committee voted to hold Steward Health Care CEO Dr. Ralph de la Torre in contempt for defying a congressional subpoena...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Angus King (I-ME), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) introduced a resolution recognizing October 2024 as National Dyslexia Awareness Month. U.S....

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 condemning the Biden-Harris administration’s actions that have led to the continued exploitation of unaccompanied migrant children in its care.   Cassidy’s remarks came ahead of...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, slammed the Biden-Harris administration for forcing call-center employees to unionize even if they do not want to join a union. These efforts threaten the closure of 12 call centers employing 10,000 employees...

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’ latest political show vote on in-vitro fertilization (IVF) designed to misinform and scare voters ahead of the November election.  “Despite...

WASHINGTON – Last week, West Monroe Mayor Staci Albritton Mitchell and Louisiana Representative Michael Charles Echols appeared before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee to discuss Steward Health Care’s financial mismanagement of Glenwood Regional Medical Center in West Monroe, LA.   In the hearing, Mitchell and...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Chris Coons (D-DE) introduced legislation to reauthorizes and strengthen AmeriCorps programs, which provide vital national service opportunities to more than 200,000 Americans each year in thousands of...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, is demanding accountability from the Department of Labor (DOL) following a new report showing serious concerns that American energy workers are being prevented from and experiencing delays in receiving crucial...

WASHINGTON – At today’s hearing on Steward Health Care, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), chair of the HELP Committee, announced that the Committee will consider a resolution to hold Steward Health CEO Dr. Ralph de la Torre in...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Jack Reed (D-RI) introduced a bipartisan resolution to designate September 2024 as National Literacy Month.  “Our students deserve better. Unless reading proficiency improves, we are at risk of losing an...

WASHINGTON – 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 Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) delays in implementing his Securing the U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Act, legislation which streamlines the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, held a roundtable to discuss the state of K-12 education and the need to innovate to ensure student success. U.S. Senators Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Katie Britt (R-AL), and Joni Ernst (R-IA) also participated in...

WASHINGTON – Tomorrow, September 10, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, will host a roundtable to discuss ways to innovate within K-12 education to improve student success. Specifically, the roundtable will include panelists from around the country who will...

WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, September 10, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, will host a roundtable to discuss ways to innovate within K-12 education to improve student success. Specifically, the roundtable will include panelists from around the country who will...

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 Steward Health CEO Dr. Ralph de la Torre defying a congressional subpoena to testify in front of the HELP Committee on the company’s financial mismanagement of its...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, wrote an op-ed in Fox News slamming the Biden-Harris administration for its failure to protect migrant children from abuse and exploitation. This horrific treatment is directly linked to Joe Biden and Kamala...

WASHINGTON –  U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, called on HELP Committee Chair Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to hold a hearing to investigate Southwest Key Programs Inc., an Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) contractor, over allegations of sexual abuse of...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, blasted a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) final rule that dramatically increases the cost of federal Head Start programs, in violation of federal law, and when fully implemented will prevent...