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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Jack Reed (D-RI) introduced a resolution designating September 2025 as “National Literacy Month.” “The NAEP scores show our K-12 system is failing on literacy. If students do not learn to read, they cannot...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Jon Husted (R-OH), and Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) introduced the Recommending Artificial Intelligence Standards in Education (RAISE) Act. This legislation empowers states to include artificial intelligence (AI) and...

WASHINGTON – On Thursday, September 18, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will hold a hearing on the troubling state of K-12 education. According to the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 12th graders are leaving high school with the lowest levels of math and reading scores ever...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, announced that the HELP Committee will hold a hearing next week on delivering President Trump’s mission to restore radical transparency at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This is crucial to...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement following a new report showing the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) overcounted job growth by 911,000 jobs from March 2024 through March 2025. It is the largest BLS revision since 2002. This comes...