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Washington – Three top members of the Senate committee that governs mine safetytoday said federal investigators conducting a thorough investigation of the Crandall CanyonMine tragedy must be allowed to complete their work, and urged Congress to refrain fromrushing to judgments based on incomplete and unofficial evidence. Senator Mike Enzi...

Washington D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-WY, Ranking Member of theSenate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP Committee), today cosponsoreda bill designed to “take the first steps toward broad Medicare reform and helpplace it on a sustainable path to ensure that seniors can receive the care and drugs theyneed for...

Washington D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-WY, Ranking Member of theSenate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP Committee), today saidhe is pleased the Senate has voted to move toward final passage of the “Indian HealthCare Improvement Act,” S. 1200, a bill he said will “move the country forward in theright...

Washington D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-WY, Ranking Member of theSenate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP Committee), todayvoiced support for a proposal submitted by the President that he said would, “take thefirst steps toward broad Medicare reform and help place that critical program on asustainable path to...

Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today applauded theHouse of Representatives for passing legislation to reauthorize the Higher Education Act,which includes key higher education reforms he said are critical to expand access tocollege, protect students from bad actors in the student loan industry, and provide...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Ranking Member ofthe Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today said thatlegislation aimed at overturning the Supreme Court’s decision in a last year’semployment discrimination case, Ledbetter v. Goodyear, would effectively eliminate thestatute of...

Washington, D.C. – Saying “No one should be precluded from visiting theirelected officials, attending hearings, or participating in events in Congress because ofphysical or communication barriers,” U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Ranking Memberof the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today sent...

Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP Committee), today saidthat he is committed to renewing and improving the President’s Emergency Plan forAIDS relief (PEPFAR) to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria across the globe. “Five years ago we established a program that has been very successfulpreventing and treating AIDS...

Washington D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-WY, Ranking Member of theSenate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP Committee), today saidstrengthening public faith in the safety of food is crucial to public health as well as theeconomy, and reaffirmed his commitment to develop a bipartisan, comprehensiveresponse to improve the...

Washington D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-WY, Ranking Member of theSenate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP Committee), today saidhe is pleased that the HELP Committee approved a series of bills to enhance the publichealth, including measures to fight childhood cancer, enhance the nation’s defensesagainst...

Washington, D.C. - The Senate has approved the final House-Senate agreementto renew the Head Start program by a 95-0 vote, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY),Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP)Committee, announced today, saying the measure will help ensure that low-incomechildren are prepared - not only for success...

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Ranking Member ofthe Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today said aHouse-Senate Conference Committee approved an agreement on the “Improving HeadStart for School Readiness Act of 2007,” a bill that will improve Head Start programs andensure that “all...

Washington D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-WY, Ranking Member of theSenate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP Committee), today saidhe is encouraged by many of the recommendations issued by the President’s InteragencyWorking Group on Import Safety and reaffirmed his commitment to develop acomprehensive response to...

Washington D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-WY, Ranking Member of theSenate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP Committee), today metwith Dr. Jeffrey Kohler, Associate Director for Mine Safety and Health at the NationalInstitute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), to discuss developments in minesafety technology, and...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Memberof the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today saidCongress is losing sight of the original intent of the State Children’s Health InsuranceProgram (SCHIP) by threatening to turn a sound health care plan for kids into a flawedprogram covering...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Ranking Member ofthe Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today offered anamendment to ensure that no appropriations bill can be used to overturn the bipartisan,bicameral agreement on the Ryan White CARE Act reauthorization passed last year, andcheat communities in...

Washington, D.C. – In a sharp rebuke to the House, the Senate today voted toreject the Pelosi fix, a misguided ploy in the House appropriations bill for theDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, H.R. 3043,that wouldoverturn the bipartisan, bicameral agreement on the Ryan White CARE Actreauthorization passed last...

Washington, D.C. – After the House of Representatives voted today to upholdPresident Bush’s veto of a flawed Democrat children’s health bill, U.S. Senator MikeEnzi (R-WY), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions(HELP) Committee, urged leaders in both parties to continue on the path toward...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Ranking Member ofthe Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today blew thewhistle on House Democrat Leadership for using a hidden provision in an appropriationsbill to undermine the Ryan White CARE Act reauthorization passed last year, whichwould ensure more equitable...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Ranking Member ofthe Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today said that theinvestigation of the tragedy at the Crandall Canyon Mine in Utah should be thorough andnon-political, and urged lawmakers to resist the temptation to enact quick-fix legislationbefore that...