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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...