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Washington, D.C. –U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Ranking Member of theSenate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today applauded theSenate for unanimously approving and sending to the President for his signaturelegislation to help treat Americans, including returning soldiers, living with traumaticbrain injury...

Washington, D.C. – At today’s Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions(HELP) Committee hearing on climate change and public health, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi(R-WY), Ranking Member of the HELP Committee, said that Congress should focus itsefforts on solving the health crises around the world related to poverty and a lack of...

Washington, D.C. –U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Ranking Member of theSenate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today introduced the“Small Business Health Plans Act of 2008,” bipartisan legislation that would expandaccess to affordable health care by allowing small businesses and working families topool...

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Ranking Member ofthe Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today rallied withSenator Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Chairman of the HELP Committee, and the CEOs ofsome of America’s largest employers to urge passage of the “Wired for Health CareQuality Act,” S. 1693, a...

Washington, D.C. – Top members of a Senate committee that oversees minesafety regulations reacted today to the findings of a Labor Department report on the MineSafety and Health Administration’s response to the Crandall Canyon Mine tragedy.Sens. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) and Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), seniormembers of the...

Washington D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-WY, Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP Committee), today said he is committed to developing a long-term, financially responsible solution for 9-11 healthcare “worthy of heroes.” At today’s HELP Committee hearing titled, “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 expand breast cancer research, advance standards formedical imaging...

In an effort to encourage all Americans, at all stages of theirlife, to discuss important end-of-life medical decisions with their loved ones, U.S.Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Mike Enzi (R-WY) and U.S RepresentativePhil Gingrey (R-GA) today introduced a joint-resolution to recognize NationalHealth Care Decisions Day. “It’s not easy...

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Ranking Member ofthe Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today urgedCongress to apply the lessons learned as it restructured and doubled funding for theNational Institutes of Health (NIH) as it now considers the President’s request to doublefunding for basic research...

Washington D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-WY, Ranking Member of theSenate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP Committee), is takingto the road next week to draw attention to the nation’s health care crisis and the stepsCongress can take to wrangle health care costs in America. From March 17 through March 20, Enzi...

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Ranking Member of theSenate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today said thatCongress must renew and improve critical education and training programs to ensure thatall Americans have opportunities to develop the knowledge and skills they need to besuccessful and financially...

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...

Committee to work from to identify and address the healthcare workforce issues thatconfront us. Today’s hearing will give us all an opportunity to highlight not only thoseissues that are unique to our states but also those that affect our nation’s healthcaresystem as a whole. In my home state of Wyoming, one of our biggest challenges is...

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...