Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC— Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Senate Health,Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and Representative George Miller, Chairman of theCommittee on Education and Labor, will hold a meeting between the House and SenateConferees on the conference of H.R. 2669, the College Cost Reduction Act of 2007. This bill,...

Washington D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-WY, Ranking Member of theSenate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP Committee), today saidthat the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), which safeguards the pensions ofover 44 million American workers and retirees, must maintain a diversified and prudentinvestment portfolio...

Washington D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-WY, Ranking Member of theSenate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP Committee), todayapplauded President Bush for signing into law a bill to reauthorize the Higher EducationAct (HEA), which he said will improve higher education affordability, access, andaccountability. “Today...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of theSenate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today applauded theSenate for approving legislation to prevent expiration of the Animal Drug User Fee Act(ADUFA), which provides the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with the resourcesto evaluate and...

WASHINGTON, DC— Melissa Wagoner, spokeswoman for Senator Edward M. Kennedy (DMA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, released the following statement by the Senator today on a letter he sent to Massachusetts students and families suggesting options for federal funding that may be available to students...

Washington D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-WY, Ranking Member of theSenate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP Committee), todaycelebrated final passage of an agreement to reauthorize the Higher Education Act (HEA),which he said will improve higher education affordability, access, and accountability.“Completing this...

Washington D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-WY, Ranking Member of theSenate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP Committee), todayapplauded President Bush for signing legislation to reauthorize the global HIV/AIDSrelief program known as PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief). “This bill will secure...

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions today praised the action of Senate and House conferees in approving a Conference Report to reconcile legislation passed in the Senate and the House of Representatives to reauthorize the Higher Education Act of 1965....

Washington D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., Ranking Member of theSenate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP Committee), todaymade the following statement as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration(OSHA) announced it has issued citations against Imperial Sugar Co. for violations thatled to a deadly explosion...

Washington D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-WY, Ranking Member of theSenate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP Committee), issued thefollowing statement on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s (MSHA)investigation into the accident at Crandall Canyon Mine, which the Department of Laborreleased today:...

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Ranking Member of theSenate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today denouncedpassage by the House of Representatives of a so-called tobacco regulation bill he said“coddles Big Tobacco while protecting the industry’s best tools to recruit and addict yourchildren to...

Washington D.C. – The Senate today voted to renew the President’s EmergencyPlan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), ensuring the resources to improve the program’s focuson treating individuals with HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, and save lives incountries devastated by poverty and disease, said U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-WY,Ranking...

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 was pleased that the Senate is moving toward passage of legislation to renew thePresident’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), adding that the bill would savelives in poor...

WASHINGTON, DC— Melissa Wagoner, spokeswoman for Senator Edward M. Kennedy, today released the following statement on the US Department of Education’s evaluation of Title III programs under the No Child Left Behind Act that was reported to Congress last week. “Senator Kennedy is pleased to know that thanks to hard work and...

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Ranking Member ofthe Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today said budgetestimates confirm that HELP Committee legislation to allow the Food and DrugAdministration (FDA) to approve biosimilar therapeutics in an expedited way wouldproduce significant reductions in...

Washington, DC –U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Ranking Member of theSenate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP Committee), today saidthat Congress must tackle a key weakness in America’s health care system – the growingthreat of antibiotic resistance and the failure to create new antibiotics to address...

Washington, DC – Two years after Congress passed the “Mine Improvement andNew Emergency Response Act” (MINER Act) ,U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY),Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee(HELP Committee), said the law has significantly improved mine safety and includesprovisions that will continue...

Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Ranking Member of theSenate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP Committee), todayintroduced a bill to expand and revitalize the two main federal employment and trainingprograms for persons with significant disabilities, paving the way to create more, betterjobs and restore...

Washington D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-WY, Ranking Member of theSenate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP Committee), todayslammed the Democrat Budget Resolution, which he argued would force $1.2 trillion intax hikes on working families, cause an explosion in federal spending, and boost thealready growing national...

Washington D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-WY, Ranking Member of theSenate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP Committee), todayissued the following statement on the tentative agreement to renew the President’sEmergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR): “The tentative agreement we have reached on the global AIDS...