Chair's Press

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today marked the 21st annual World AIDS Day by urging the United States and its partners across the world to expand their efforts to prevent the spread of the disease. “We have made tremendous progress...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) today made the followingremarks as the Senate moved closer to a critical vote on whether to move forward onthe Reid health care bill: “The Majority Leader has jammed ten pounds of entitlement spending into a fivepound sack. But he is not fooling the American people. The voices of August...

Washington, D.C. – What would the Reid health care bill mean for smallbusinesses? More taxes, higher costs and new mandates. For workers, the billwould mean fewer jobs and lower wages, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), aformer small business owner, said in a speech on the Senate floor today.““How would more taxes, higher health...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), have introduced S. 2796, bipartisan legislation to extend the Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act (ECASLA). Senator Enzi said, “Students...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of theSenate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, made the followingstatement on the health care bill released yesterday by Senate Majority Leader HarryReid: “We need health care reform, but it has to be done the right way. We have tobring down costs...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the SenateHealth, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee today supported committeepassage of S. 510, The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, that will help prevent foodborne illness, and give FDA new, modern authorities to address food safety problems. “Food...

Washington, D.C. –A government task force has recommended womenshould not receive regular mammograms until they are 50. Is that a sign ofthings to come? U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.). said people should be asking thatquestion as Congress considers health care legislation that gives bureaucrats thepower to determine which treatments and...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today criticized the federal government's preparation and response to the H1N1 virus, saying vaccine production and distribution cannot continue to fall short of the public's need. "The Administration...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the SenateHealth, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today criticized the federalgovernment's preparation and response to the H1N1 virus, saying vaccine production anddistribution cannot continue to fall short of the public's need. "The Administration promised...

Washington, D.C. – Experts at the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO)have concluded that the health care bill passed by Democrats on the Senate Health, Education,Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee would balloon the national deficit by more than $1trillion, drive up total spending on health care and force millions of Americans to...

Washington, D.C. – Responding to reports that unemployment rose to 10.2 percent,U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Laborand Pensions (HELP) Committee, said the troubling job losses announced today confirm thatthe economy is too fragile to stand the massive new spending contained in the...

Mr. Chairman, just over a year ago you and I held our first retirement savings hearing together and we looked into how to provide greater transparency and understanding of 401(k) disclosure statements to workers and retirees. So today, I am very glad that we are expanding our review of our nation’s retirement saving system by looking into...

Washington, D.C. – In a speech on the Senate floor today, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi(R-Wyo.) highlighted 10 provisions in the Senate Democrats’ health care bills that would driveup health care costs for American families. “This health plan being forced on Americans under phony tight deadlines bites off toomuch, fails to deliver on...

Washington, DC: Today at noon, Senator Edward Kennedy and former Senator John Edwards will host a press conference call with the organizers from the six states that have minimum wage initiatives on the ballot this year: Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nevada and Ohio. The minimum wage measures are expected to pass in all six states and extensive...

Washington, D.C. – A report released yesterday by the official budget scorekeepersat the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) concludes that the health care billauthored by Democrats in the House of Representatives would drive up health care costsand force millions of Americans to lose the care they have now, including seniors...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the SenateHealth, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today issued the followingstatement on Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Senator Debbie Stabenow’s, D-Mich.,“doc-fix” bill: “I strongly support fixing reimbursement rates for...

I understand that we have ten nominees who have undergone theCommittee vetting process, responded to questions for the record and submitted completedpaperwork to the Committee. We have three nominees to serve in Board positions on theNational Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and nominees for the Legal Services Corporation andthe National Council on the...

Washington, D.C. – The bipartisan Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of2009, approved unanimously today by the U.S. Senate, will save lives by ensuring thatpeople with HIV/AIDS across the country can get the treatment they need, Senator Mike Enzi(R-Wyo.) announced. “Millions of Americans living with HIV/AIDS rely on the Ryan...

Washington, D.C. – A report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office(CBO) today confirms that real reform to reduce frivolous medical lawsuits would cut healthcare costs and trim the deficit. Unfortunately, of the five partisan Democrat health care billsapproved by committees in the Senate and House of Representatives, not one...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP)Committee met today to consider four White House nominees, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (RWyo.), the Committee’s Ranking Member, maintained his opposition to Patricia Smith, theAdministration’s choice to serve as Solicitor at the U.S. Dept. of...