Chair's Press

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, applauded the Trump administration's recent actions to protect children from irreversible chemical and surgical castration.   The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a new policy preventing Medicaid...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, raised serious concerns about the potential sale of 23andMe’s genetic database of over 15 million users. The sale creates the opportunity for foreign adversaries, including the Chinese Communist Party, to acquire the...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, announced that Wednesday's Committee markup to consider the Protecting Students on Campus Act, the Antisemitism Awareness Act, and the Give Kids a Chance Act is postponed. The rescheduled markup will be announced...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Thom Tillis (R-NC), and ten Republican colleagues introduced the Defending Education Transparency and Ending Rogue Regimes Engaging in Nefarious Transactions (DETERRENT) Act. This legislation would increase the...

WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, April 9, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will vote on bipartisan legislation to address the continued antisemitic attacks and harassment against Jewish students on college campuses. Specifically, the HELP Committee will consider the Protecting Students on Campus Act and the Antisemitism...

WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), ranking member of the HELP Committee, sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., inviting him to participate in a HELP Committee hearing on the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, is demanding information from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) regarding its actions to comply with President Trump’s recent executive order (EO) to ensure children are not subjected to...

WASHINGTON – Earlier this week, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined The Brian Kilmeade Show on Fox News Radio to discuss President Trump and congressional Republicans’ efforts to return education authority to states and local communities who are best suited to...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, launched an investigation into American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) following reports that the group has helped organize, support, and facilitate violent, antisemitic demonstrations that are disrupting college campuses...

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 to address the continued antisemitic attacks and harassment against Jewish students on college campuses. According to the Anti-Defamation League, antisemitic incidents on college...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Dr. Martin Makary to be Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration by a final vote of XX to XX. The HELP Committee previously approved his...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya to be Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by a final vote of 53 to 47. The HELP Committee previously approved...

WASHINGTON – On Thursday, March 27, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will hold a hearing to address the continued antisemitic attacks and harassment against Jewish students on college campuses.   According to the Anti-Defamation League, antisemitic incidents on college campuses were up almost 500 percent between...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement on President Trump’s executive order to reform the Department of Education, returning education authority to states and local communities who are best suited to help their students succeed in the...

WASHINGTON – On Thursday, March 27, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will hold a hearing to address the continued antisemitic attacks and harassment against Jewish students on college campuses.   According to the Anti-Defamation League, antisemitic incidents on college campuses were up almost 500 percent between...

WASHINGTON – Today, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee voted to favorably report the nominations of Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya to be Director of the National Institutes of Health and Dr. Martin Makary to be Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration by votes of 12-11 and 14-9, respectively. Their nominations...

WASHINGTON – Following the withdrawal of the nomination of Dr. David Weldon to be Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, today’s Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing is canceled. The HELP Committee will still vote on the nominations of Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya to be Director of the National...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Ron Johnson (R-WI), Mike Lee (R-UT), Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-KS), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Tim Scott (R-SC) launched a Senate Republican working group to examine potential legislative reforms...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Keith Sonderling to be Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor by a final vote of 53 to 46. The HELP Committee previously approved his...

WASHINGTON – Tomorrow, March 13, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will hold a confirmation hearing on the nomination of Dr. David Weldon to be Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The hearing will take place directly after the HELP Committee votes on the nominations of  Dr. Jayanta...