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, yesterday requested President Obama withdraw the nomination of Patricia Smith for Solicitor of the U.S. Labor Department based on inconsistent statements and testimony before the HELP Committee. “The...

Washington, D.C. –U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., today said that if the White Houseand Democrat leadership in the Senate choose to shut Republicans and moderateDemocrats out of the health care debate, their health care plan would fail. “If the Democrats choose to go it alone, their health care plan will fail because theAmerican people...

Washington, D.C. – A government-run option for health care is not an option for U.S.Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., a key figure in the health care debate. Enzi, Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP)Committee and member of the Senate Finance Committee, repeated his opposition to agovernment-run health care plan...

Enzi Statement on The Passing of Eunice Kennedy Shriver I would like to express my deepest sympathy to my friend Senator Kennedy and to the entire Kennedy family on the passing of Eunice Kennedy Shriver. They have lost a very special presence in their lives, a woman of amazing strength of mind, heart and character who saw the needs of people with...

Washington, D.C. – Though two weeks have passed since Democrats approved a partisan health care bill in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, a complete copy of the final bill as amended in Committee remains unavailable for the public or members of the Senate to review, and the bill’s supporters have yet to...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the SenateHealth, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee commented today on ananalysis from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that reveals significantly lesssavings than previously promised under President Obama’s proposed mandate that allstudent loans...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee commented today on theannouncement from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) that it will takeover the pension plans for Delphi Corp – the parts manufacturer for General...

Washington, D.C. – As a key committee in the U.S. House of Representatives passed a massive restructuring of the student aid programs yesterday, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee made the follow statement in support of free marketlending options for...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) today slammed the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee's rubber stamp approval of a healthcare reform bill that nonpartisan experts at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) say will drive up health care costs, increase the national deficit by more than $1 trillion and...

Washington, D.C. –U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, hailed last night’s HELP Committee approval of an amendment that will lower drug costs by creating a pathway for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve new competitors for biologic drugs,...

Washington, D.C. – Despite evidence that Medicaid beneficiaries have poorer health than other Americans and have difficulty getting the care they need because many doctors do not accept Medicaid patients, Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee today rejected an effort to provide Medicaid patients with...

Americans need health care reform this year. Republicans believe we must have a health care plan that you can afford and that your government can afford, so your children do not get a big debt piled on top of them.  We must make sure everyone is covered.  And we must make sure that Washington does not come in between you and your...

Washington, D.C. – In his remarks today in Italy, President Obama put himself squarely at odds with the health care reform plan being pushed forward by Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee when it comes to cutting costs, controlling the deficit and letting Americans keep the care they...

Washington, D.C. – After a briefing from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) has requested further analysis of the agency’s assessment that the Kennedy health care bill would cost taxpayers $1.2 trillion, force employers to reduce employee wages, and break the President’s promise of, “If you...

Washington, D.C. – Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor andPensions (HELP) Committee today rejected a proposal from Senator Mike Enzi (RWyo.)to eliminate handouts to higher income workers in the Democrats’ health care billand use the savings to expand veterans’ health and education benefits, help Americanswho have lost...

Washington, D.C. – Lower-income workers, including high school dropouts,minorities and women, would bear the brunt of the job-killing, wage-cutting tax in thehealth bill offered by Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions(HELP) Committee, a Harvard University study shows. Small businesses would havethe most difficulty...

Washington, D.C. – During today’s Senate Health, Education, Labor andPensions (HELP) Committee consideration of the Kennedy health care bill, Democratscontinued to reject every Republican effort to bring down health care costs, including aproposal from Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) to reduce frivolous medical lawsuits, whichdrive up costs...

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. – With the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projecting an expansion of Medicaid to cost approximately $500 billion, the total cost of the Kennedy health care bill once it is fully implemented would approach nearly $2 trillion.“How are we going to pay for a $2 trillion bill? We’re already getting swallowed up by...