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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered a speech on the U.S. Senate floor discussing how his Money and Value for Patients (MVP) agenda can make life more affordable. “Don't give the money to the insurance companies. Give it to the patient,”...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, will speak on the U.S. Senate floor today to discuss how his MVP agenda makes health care more affordable by giving money directly to families. Date: Tuesday, June 9, 2026 Time: 4:00 PM ET/ 3:00 PM CT Click here...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Jim Banks (R-IN), John Hickenlooper (D-CO), Tim Scott (R-SC), and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) introduced the Reading Excellence and Achievement for Development (READ) Act to improve all children’s...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, pressed New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration on the recent cybersecurity incident affecting NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest public health system in the U.S. Over a three-month period, NYC Health +...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered a speech on the U.S. Senate floor discussing how his Money and Value for Patients (MVP) agenda can make life more affordable. Wanting to create lasting change, Cassidy asked to meet with President Trump...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led a hearing on how Congress can protect children from irreversible gender transition procedures. “Americans and their health care providers deserve to know that medical guidelines, especially for children,...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, will speak on the U.S. Senate floor today to discuss how his MVP agenda lowers health care costs by giving money directly to families. Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2026 Time: 1:45 PM ET/ 12:45 PM CT Click here to...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will hold a hearing next Wednesday on the nominations of Brett Matsumoto to be Commissioner of Labor Statistics at the U.S. Department of Labor and James Macy and David Prouty to be members of the National Labor Relations Board. Agenda: Nominations of Brett...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) expanded efforts to protect families’ health from foreign imported shrimp that contains dangerous radioactive substances. “We have experienced a serious increase in food safety...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will hold a hearing next Wednesday on how Congress can protect children from the dangers of irreversible gender procedures. As the first physician to chair the HELP Committee, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) is leading efforts to stop the gender mutilation...

WASHINGTON, May 27 — After the Trump administration tried to fire more than half of the investigators tasked with protecting the civil rights of students and left students nationwide without protection from alleged civil rights violations, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, raised concerns about the recent cybersecurity incident threatening the private health data of Hims & Hers users. “At a time when hostile actors are increasingly using sophisticated tactics leveraging...

WASHINGTON – Tomorrow’s U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing on how Congress can protect children from the dangers of irreversible gender procedures is postponed. The hearing will be rescheduled at a future date. Title: Protecting Our Children: Exposing the Dangers of Irreversible Gender Transition Procedures...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered remarks during today’s hearing on how charter schools meet students’ unique learning needs, empowering parents to give their child their best chance at success. Click here to watch the full...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Jon Husted (R-OH), and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) introduced the Student Aid Fraud Oversight and Accountability Act. Senators Husted and Tuberville co-chair the HELP task force to eliminate fraud in education. This...

WASHINGTON, May 18 — As President Trump and congressional Republicans tout so-called “No Tax on Overtime” while simultaneously denying the right to overtime pay for more than 4.3 million workers, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) and Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) today...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, U.S. Representative Tim Walberg (R-MI), Chairman of the U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee, U.S. Representative John Moolenaar (R-MI), Chairman of the U.S. House Select Committee on China, and U.S....

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement on the Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana’s lawsuit to protect women and their unborn children from dangerous mail-order chemical abortion drugs. “SCOTUS’ decision today doesn’t change the...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will hold a hearing next Thursday on how Congress can protect children from the dangers of irreversible gender procedures. As the first physician to chair the HELP Committee, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) is leading efforts to stop the gender mutilation of...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, launched an investigation into alarming reports of federally funded health entities performing irreversible gender mutilation on children and vulnerable individuals. This comes as the HELP Committee is set to...