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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will hold two field hearings in Louisiana next week to discuss how Congress can make health care affordable and improve mental health and substance use disorder treatment. The Committee will hear from a variety of perspectives within the health care system,...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduced the Improving Financial Aid Offers for Students Act to make the cost of college more transparent. The bill aims to make higher education more affordable by equipping students...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Jim Risch (R-ID), and six Republican senators introduced the Heat Workforce Standards Act to protect Louisiana workers from dangerous Biden-era heat standards that threaten jobs and create new safety risks. This...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced legislation expanding apprenticeship opportunities by making it easier to see what is already working and establishing consistent guidelines for the federal and state governments to register...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Jim Banks (R-IN) introduced the Investigation Status and Governance for Honest Transparency (INSIGHT) Act. Under previous administrations, frivolous Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)...