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 Tim Scott (R-SC) highlighted Republican efforts to protect American workers ahead of today’s HELP Committee hearing on labor relations in the United States. U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, called out the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for weaponizing its enforcement power to target high-profile employers in order to revive certain policies and precedents favored by unions. This...

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 speech on the Senate floor responding to President Biden’s plan to veto the Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution overturning the Biden administration rule authorizing asset...

  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 community health centers (CHCs). He discussed the value of CHCs for rural and underserved communities, and stressed the importance of reauthorizing...

WASHINGTON – Today, 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, requested input from health care providers and stakeholders on the root causes of the current health care workforce shortage and potential...

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 a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn the Biden administration rule authorizing asset managers to prioritize environment,...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, requested that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) provide updated information on the Community Health Center Fund (CHCF) in light of the committee’s Thursday hearing on community...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee, released the following statement on the nomination of Department of Labor (DOL) Deputy Secretary Julie Su to replace Marty Walsh as Secretary of DOL. Cassidy previously voted against her deputy secretary...

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), Susan Collins (R-ME), Mike Braun (R-IN), and Ted Budd (R-NC) urged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to provide clarity on the purpose and structure of its...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee, joined U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and 20 senators in reintroducing the National Right-to-Work Act, which would protect workers’ choice to form, join, or assist labor organizations or not...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee, and John Thune (R-SD) reintroduced the Stop Reckless Student Loan Actions Act, which would end President Biden’s current student loan pause and prohibit the president from cancelling any...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee, delivered remarks during the hearing “Examining Health Care Workforce Shortages: Where Do We Go From Here?” He discussed the ongoing shortage of health care providers, including...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, expressed his opposition to four Biden administration nominees following an off-the-floor HELP committee executive session. The committee voted on the nominations of Karla Gilbride for...

WASHINGTON – Tomorrow, February 16th,  the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee will hold a hearing entitled “Examining Health Care Workforce Shortages: Where Do We Go From Here?”. According to the American Hospital Association, the United States will face a shortage of up to 124,000 physicians...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee, U.S. Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce committee, and 67 lawmakers called on the Biden administration to rescind their reckless Income Driven...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered the following remarks in the first executive session of the 118th Congress:  Thank you, Chair Sanders and the rest of the members of the committee. In this committee, we have a...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) joined U.S. Senator Mike Braun (R-IN) and 48 of their senate colleagues in introducing a Congressional Review Act to overturn the Biden administration rule authorizing asset managers to...

WASHINGTON – Tomorrow, February 9th,  the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) will hold an executive session entitled “Committee Rules and Funding Resolution.” The agenda includes voting on the Committee Funding Resolution and the Committee Rules for the 118th Congress. This is the first...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), joined U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and 41 Senate colleagues in filing an amicus brief in Biden v. Nebraska and Department of Education v. Brown challenging the Biden administration’s...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), and Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, rebuked the administration’s reckless Income Driven Repayment (IDR) rule...