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WASHINGTON – On Thursday, September 24, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will hold a confirmation hearing on the nomination of Dr. Heidi Overton to be Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The hearing will take place directly after the HELP Committee votes on the nominations of several Trump...

WASHINGTON – On Thursday, September 24, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will vote on several Trump administration nominees at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and National Mediation Board, as well as legislation to eliminate student aid fraud in higher education. Agenda: Nomination of Nicole...

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 for the nominations of Chris Klomp to be Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Nicole Saphier to be Surgeon General, and Timothy Westlake to be...

WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, September 16, the U.S Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will hold a confirmation hearing on the nominations of Chris Klomp to be Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Nicole Saphier to be Surgeon General, and Timothy Westlake to be Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a report detailing how the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) are promoting dangerous ideology instead of advancing our children’s learning. This comes...