Chair's Press

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the SenateHealth, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today said that reaching a bipartisan agreement is critical to enacting successful health care reform legislation. “It worries and disappoints me to hear the Democrat Majority Leader urge his Chairmento...

Washington, D.C. – In a public meeting with the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said its new analysis shows that millions of Americans would lose the employer-based health insurance they have now if the Kennedy bill becomes law.“The Kennedy bill breaks the...

Washington, D.C. – According to the latest estimates by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the new draft of the Kennedy health care bill will cost approximately $645 billion and leave 34 million Americans without health insurance.“No matter how they spin it, the Kennedy bill still costs too much and leaves 34 million Americans...

Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Senators Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Senior Member of the HELP Committee, today requested that HELP Committee Chairman Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) hold a hearing to examine President Obama’s removal of the...

Washington, D.C. – In a party-line vote, Democrats on the Senate Health, Education,Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee today rejected a Coburn amendment to limit the ofgovernment by setting up a “cap and trade” system for the Department of Health and HumanServices. The proposal would require that every new employee hired at HHS...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today voiced his strong opposition to an $80 billion pork barrel spending slush fund included in the $1.3 trillion Kennedy health care bill currently before the HELP Committee.“The Kennedy bill leaves...

Washington, D.C. – In a series of party-line votes, Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee today rejected a number of common sense proposals to cut wasteful spending in the Kennedy health care bill and ensure that funds go to help low-income Americans get the care they need. “Common sense tells us...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the SenateHealth, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today proposed changes to theKennedy health care bill that would protect patients by specifically prohibiting Washingtonbureaucrats from denying or limiting access to health care services. “The Kennedy...

(Washington, D.C.) – The Department of Labor’s (DOL) Job Corps training program, while meeting its goals for young, disadvantaged males, is struggling to meet its goals for young women according to Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released today. The report found that Job Corps has taken some steps to improve the...

Washington, D.C. – Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions(HELP) Committee, today rejected an offer from Republicans to protect patients by specificallyprohibiting Washington bureaucrats from denying or limiting access to health care services.“I’m very disappointed that Democrats would not accept our...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today offered an amendment to correct the Kennedy health bill’s glaring failure to reduce medical lawsuits, which drive up health care costs and force doctors to order wasteful tests and treatments to...

Washington, D.C. – As the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions(HELP) Committee enters its second day considering the Kennedy health care bill, U.S.Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the HELP Committee, is leadingRepublican efforts to reduce the bill’s out-of-control spending. “Republicans stand ready to write a...

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee today begins consideration of the Kennedy bill, which preliminary analysis shows will cost over $1 trillion, leave tens of millions without coverage, and cause millions more to lose their health insurance. “Why are we rushing to act on this bill? Asking the Committee to...

Washington, D.C. – In the first day of the Senate Health, Education, Labor andPensions (HELP) Committee’s consideration of the Kennedy health care bill, U.S.Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the HELP Committee, ledRepublicans in focusing on the Kennedy bill’s high costs and failure to cover tens ofmillions of...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today said he would use the Committee process to highlight and correct the numerous flaws in the Kennedy health care bill, which preliminary analysis shows will cost more than $1 trillion, leave about 36-37...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee and a member of the Finance Committee, today said that the HELP Committee should look to the careful, deliberate process of the Finance Committee as a model for a bipartisan approach to health care...

WSHINGTON -- U.S. Senators Judd Gregg (R-NH) and Mike Enzi (R-WY), ranking members of the Senate Budget Committee, and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, respectively, today issued the following statements regarding the true cost and impact of the incomplete Democratic health reform proposal currently being marked up...

Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, in his address to the American Medical Association, President Obama said, “Health care reform must be and will be deficit neutral in the next decade.” In light of the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the Kennedy-Dodd health care bill, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of...

Washington, D.C. –U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today reacted to the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) assessment that savings pledged by health care groups who met with President Obama at the White House last month simply are not...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee and Member of the Finance Committee, and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Senior Member of HELP and Finance Committees, today said they were disappointed that Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services...