Press Releases

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement after the American Council on Education, Association of Public Land Grant Universities, National Association of Financial Aid Administrators, American Association of Community colleges,...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered remarks during today’s confirmation hearing on the nomination of Dr. Casey Means to be Surgeon General of the United States. Click here to watch the full hearing. Cassidy’s speech as prepared for...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, is investigating former Assistant Secretary for Health Levine and other Biden health officials for reportedly colluding with the far-left World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) to promote...

WASHINGTON – On Thursday, February 26, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will vote on several bills to improve Americans’ access to quality education and health care. The bills under consideration include: S. 1602, Mathematical and Statistical Modeling Education Act S. 1558, Understanding the True Cost of College...

WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, February 25, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will hold a confirmation hearing on the nomination of Dr. Casey Means to be Surgeon General.   Agenda: Nomination of Casey Means to be Medical Director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service and Surgeon General of the Public Health...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and U.S. Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ), led 58 Republican lawmakers in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Western District of Louisiana supporting Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill’s lawsuit to protect women...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a landmark report detailing legislative and regulatory reforms to modernize the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These proposals aim to maintain American biomedical dominance and ensure patients have...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, continued to pressure Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s administration to comply with a Senate investigation into the alleged rampant child care fraud in his state. Specifically, the Walz administration refused to provide...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), today introduced legislation that would ensure the United States finally joins virtually every other major country on Earth in guaranteeing paid sick leave to its workers. Sanders...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Ted Budd (R-NC), introduced the Workforce Development Modernization Act and the Employer-Directed Skills Act to increase Americans’ access to job opportunities by eliminating red tape, increasing flexibility, and...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered remarks during today’s hearing on reports of fraud in federal child care funding. Cassidy is leading efforts to stop fraud in federal funding, launching a Committee task force, and demanding accountability from...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, slammed Illinois Governor JB Pritzker after his state’s health department recklessly exposed private patient data to bad actors, threatening critical services to families. Earlier this year, the Illinois Department of...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, rebuked OPEXUS for failing to safeguard sensitive federal government information. Opexus, a major software service contractor for the U.S. government, was breached early last year by a cyber incident. This comes after...

WASHINGTON – On Thursday, February 12, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will hold a hearing on reports of fraud in federal child care funding, which is hurting American families and taxpayers. As chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) is...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), today announced an investigation into how Walmart, Kroger, Dollar General and Dollar Tree stand to benefit from large tax breaks in President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” while they force tens of thousands of...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, launched oversight into socialist New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for his recent actions that embolden antisemitism and put Jewish New Yorkers in harm’s way. “Whatever somebody’s ideological background, if they’re...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chair of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered remarks during today's hearing on how Congress can learn from the success of the Railroad Retirement Board to strengthen the American retirement system. Click here to watch the full hearing. Cassidy’s...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement on the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) publicly acknowledging the dangers of gender transition procedures on children. “Dangerous, irreversible gender transition surgeries on children...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement after President Trump signed into law several Cassidy-led provisions to lower prescription drug prices and rein in health care middlemen profiting off American families. These provisions were part of...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chair of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered remarks during today’s hearing on how to modernize the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to bring innovative, lifesaving cures to American families.   Click here to watch the full hearing.   Cassidy’s...