Press Releases

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today led the committee in a hearing to consider the nomination of Dr. Monica Bertagnolli to serve as Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Sanders’ remarks, as prepared for delivery, are below and can be...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered remarks during today’s hearing on the nomination of Dr. Monica Bertagnolli to be Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Click here to watch the hearing live.  Cassidy’s speech as prepared...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), along with 32 of their colleagues in the Senate, introduced a resolution today in solidarity with 150,000 members of United Auto Workers (UAW) bargaining for a fair contract, with 34,000...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, urged HELP Committee Chair Sanders to ensure federal funding for school-based health centers (SBHCs) is not used to fund abortions for children and protects parental rights in accordance with federal law. This...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement today on next week’s committee hearing in New Jersey: As the Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, I look forward to a very important hearing in New Brunswick,...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, called out President Biden’s decision to forgo neutrality as the federal executive in private labor disputes and instead join the United Auto Workers (UAW) picket line in support of union members amid...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, raised ethics concerns over HELP Committee Chair Sanders’ planned use of official committee resources to support and promote the efforts of a union currently involved in a labor dispute at Robert Wood...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, announced today that on Friday, October 27 the committee will hold a field hearing in New Brunswick, New Jersey entitled “Overworked and Undervalued: Is the Severe Hospital Staffing Crisis Endangering the Well-Being of...

WASHINGTON, October 10 – A new report released today by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, shows that many nonprofit hospital systems across the country are failing to provide low-income Americans with the affordable medical care required by their nonprofit status – despite...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, slammed the Department of Labor (DOL) proposed rule that allows outside union officials to participate and inject their influence in Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) workplace...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 – After Maximus, a major contractor that operates call centers for the federal government, failed to respect its workers constitutional right to organize, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today sent a letter to the company’s CEO Bruce Caswell requesting...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a statement following the Department of Education (ED) announcement that the Biden administration will shift an additional $9 billion in student debt onto taxpayers. This builds upon President...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, announced that his Animal Drug and Animal Generic Drug User Fee Amendments of 2023 were signed into law as part of HR 5860. The bills were previously passed by the HELP Committee this past June. ###   For...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, requested information from stakeholders on ways to reform the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Specifically, Cassidy seeks information on how the NIH could improve its process for approving federal...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, urged Department of Labor (DOL) Acting Secretary Julie Su to follow the nation’s labor laws as Congress intended. This comes as Starbucks Workers United is pressuring DOL to implement U.S. labor laws in...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, slammed the Biden administration following its illegal injection of abortion politics in the proposed enforcement regulations for the bipartisan Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA).   Not only does the...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, penned an op-ed in the Washington Examiner blasting President Biden’s student loan schemes. Specifically, he rebuked Biden’s new income-driven repayment (IDR) rule, which will result in a majority of...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today released a statement on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) recent proposed rule amending FDA regulations to classify Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs) as medical devices under the Federal Food,...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, is seeking information as part of an investigation as to how certain hospital systems may spend revenue generated from the 340B Drug Pricing Program, a federal program that allows eligible hospitals to purchase...

WASHINGTON – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, headlined an event on Capitol Hill hosted by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) to discuss his groundbreaking Lowering Education Costs and Debt Act, a package of five bills aimed at directly...