Ranking Member's Press

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 on the ongoing antisemitic attacks and harassment of Jewish students on college campuses nationwide.   “No student should fear for their safety at school. There are no grounds for a...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, requested information from Tyson Foods, Inc. as part of his wider investigation into child labor violations.   In 2022, the Department of Labor (DOL) launched an investigation into Packers Sanitation Services,...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, criticized the Biden administration’s new Title IX rule that attempts to redefine the purpose of the longstanding law intended to protect women and girls in academic settings into a vehicle to advance...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, requested continued briefings from the Biden administration on the ongoing outbreak of H5N1, an avian influenza, among wild animals and livestock in the United States and abroad.   First identified in 1996,...

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 Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) policy to expand its oversight over clinical decision support (CDS) software beyond its statutory authority, limiting access to crucial technology used to...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, slammed President Biden’s latest student loan scheme that further shifts college debt onto taxpayers. Specifically, this set of proposals allow the administration to transfer the debt for those with...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, slammed the Biden administration following its illegal injection of abortion politics in its final enforcement regulations for the bipartisan Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA).   Previously, Cassidy...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, requested information on how the Biden administration is developing its federal nutrition guidelines for Americans.   Every five...

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 the bipartisan Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) joint employer rule, which...

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 Department of Education (DeptEd) on how federal funds are being used to improve child literacy and if they are being used effectively.  Under the Comprehensive Literacy State...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, secured the return of $127 million in taxpayer funds that were wrongfully paid to the Central States Pension Fund as part of the Democrats’ $90 billion pension bailout included in the American Rescue Plan...

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 Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, issued statements following a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that total revenue for...

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 President Biden’s latest announcement to shift student loan debt onto taxpayers.   While the Biden administration prioritizes its student loan schemes, it failed to properly...

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 Labor’s (DOL) proposed apprenticeship rule that limits Americans’ access to crucial workforce training programs.   The 135-page proposed rule implements new regulations on...

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 Department of Labor’s (DOL) final rule that allows outside union officials to inject themselves into non-unionized workplaces by participating in Occupational Safety and Health...

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 Biden administration’s final rule restricting access to short-term insurance coverage, increasing the cost Americans pay for health care.   “This new rule is what people hated most 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 the Biden administration instructing Central States Pension Fund to return the $127 million that it was wrongfully paid as part of the Democrats’ $90 billion pension...

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 Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on its failure to notify Congress of a cyberattack against the agency, resulting in the theft of $7.5 million in taxpayer dollars and...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, urged HELP Chair Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to hold a hearing with Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to discuss serious concerns with the Department of Education (DeptEd) proposed fiscal year 2025...

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) urged the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide additional information on how it has responded to the recent cyberattack on Change Healthcare that has wreaked...