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 report outlining ways to improve privacy protections for Americans’ crucial health data. This comes after Cassidy requested information from stakeholders last year on how to enhance health data...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Mike Braun (R-IN) blasted the Biden administration’s proposed rule limiting patients’ access to short-term and supplemental insurance coverage, increasing the cost Americans pay for health care....

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 announcement that it will be transferring an additional $1.2 billion in student debt onto taxpayers. This latest announcement is a part of the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a report outlining the severity of declining child literacy in the United States and its long-term effects. After the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, urged HELP Committee Chair Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to hold a hearing to consider the renomination of Julie Su for Secretary of the Department of Labor (DOL). Ms. Su’s previous nomination failed to secure a Senate...

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 Office of Refugee Resettlement’s (ORR) proposed rule codifying many of its existing failed policies that have dramatically weakened oversight of unaccompanied children in ORR custody, leading...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, announced that his resolution recognizing February 2024 as Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month passed the U.S. Senate last night. The resolution celebrates career and technical education programs across...

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 prescription drugs. Click here to watch the hearing live.  Cassidy’s speech as prepared for delivery can be found below: Thank you, Chair Sanders. Everyone on this...

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 Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate reported issues with the...

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 Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Joni Ernst (R-IA), and Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-KS) held a press conference to discuss the Biden administration’s failure to properly implement the new...

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 Newsweek slamming the Biden administration’s failure to properly implement the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) program. These delays threaten students and families’ access...

WASHINGTON – Today, 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 in the Washington Examiner on the troubling influence of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideology in higher education. Specifically, Cassidy highlights that colleges have prioritized...

WASHINGTON – Tomorrow, February 1st, 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 Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Joni Ernst (R-IA), and Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-KS) will hold a press conference to discuss, and make two announcements related to the...

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’s announcement that it will delay the transmission of Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) information to colleges and universities until...

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, introduced legislation requiring that the Pensions Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) recover,...

WASHINGTON – On Thursday, February 1st, 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 Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Joni Ernst (R-IA), and Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-KS) will hold a press conference to discuss, and make two announcements related to...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Bob Casey (D-PA) introduced legislation to remove obstacles to bone marrow and blood donations and improve the chances of finding a match for patients in need. The Lifesaving Leave Act ensures...

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, along with 26 lawmakers requested a Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation into...

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) introduced a resolution designating January 21 through January 27, 2024, as National School Choice Week. “Children should have every opportunity to succeed in school, regardless of...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, is seeking information from major meat producers and chemical companies as part of a wider investigation into child labor violations. This comes after Cassidy’s inquiry into Packers Sanitation Services,...