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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 – 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...