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Ranking Member Cassidy, Chair Foxx Demand Briefing on Return to Student Loan Repayment
Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and U.S. Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, reprimanded the Department of Education (ED) for their lack of preparedness to handle millions of student loan borrowers returning to repayment. The lawmakers are demanding documents and a briefing from ED regarding the Biden administration’s plan to transition borrowers back to repayment.
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Ranking Member Cassidy, Chairwoman Foxx Blast Biden’s Lack of Transparency in Creating Title IX Rule
Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and U.S. Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, blasted the Biden administration’s lack of transparency in creating its new Title IX rule, which forces schools to allow biological males to compete in women’s sports or risk losing federal funds. Specifically, the lawmakers raised concerns over the rushed review and public comment period, which limited Americans’ ability to provide feedback on a rule that has serious implications for women and girls’ athletics.
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Ranking Member Cassidy, Braun, Colleagues Call on President Biden to Withdraw Julie Su Nomination for DOL Secretary
Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Mike Braun (R-IN), and 31 Republican senators called on President Biden to withdraw the nomination of Julie Su to be Secretary of the Department of Labor (DOL). Currently, Ms. Su’s nomination for the Secretary of DOL is being considered by the U.S. Senate.
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Ranking Member Cassidy, Chair Foxx Rebuke Biden’s New SEC Rule Threatening Americans’ Retirement Savings
Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and U.S. Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, rebuked the Biden administration’s “hard close” proposed rule that limits Americans’ ability to trade in mutual funds, threatening millions of retirement plans.
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Ranking Member Cassidy Delivers Remarks During Committee Markup of Partisan Labor Bills
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 markup of partisan labor bills. This is the HELP Committee’s first partisan markup since the Affordable Care Act in 2009.
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Ranking Member Cassidy on Troubling Report Showing Declining Reading and Math Scores Among Students Post-Pandemic
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 publication of the 2023 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Long-Term Trends report showing a 4-point decline in reading performance and a 9-point decline in math performance among 13-year-old students compared to their pre-pandemic levels during the 2019–20 school year. These are the largest declines since the test was first administered in 1971
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Cassidy Statement on Mandy Cohen to Head CDC
Cassidy Statement on Mandy Cohen to Head CDC
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Chairman Sanders Opens Sweeping Investigation into Amazon Warehouse Safety and Calls for Amazon Workers to Share Their Stories
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), sent a letter today to Amazon Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy initiating a HELP Committee investigation into the abysmal safety record in Amazon’s warehouses and the company’s treatment of workers who are injured in those warehouses.
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Senate HELP Committee to Hold First Partisan Markup since 2009, Undermining Committee’s Bipartisan Tradition
The Democrat majority of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led by Chair Bernie Sanders (I-VT), announced that tomorrow the Committee will hold its first partisan markup since the Affordable Care Act in 2009. For every markup in the last 14 years, the Chair and Ranking Member of the HELP Committee have worked together on the bills the Committee considers to secure the bipartisan support needed to pass legislation in the 60 vote Senate.
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Senate HELP Committee to Mark Up Landmark Labor Legislation
On Wednesday, June 21, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee will be marking up the most significant set of labor law reforms in modern American history. At a time when this country is experiencing more income and wealth inequality than ever before, the committee intends to pass legislation which represents the needs of the long-neglected working class of this country.
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Senate HELP Committee to Mark Up Legislation on Thursday
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Thursday, June 15 will hold an Executive Session to mark up legislation at 10:00 a.m. ET.
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New Report Shows How Badly Big Pharma Is Ripping Off American People With Publicly Funded Medications
The American People Pay the Highest Prices in the World For Lifesaving Prescription Drugs That They Helped Create. Report shows, over the last 20 years, the average price of new medical treatments that NIH scientists helped invent is $111,000 – more than ten times the price that led the NIH to first introduce a reasonable pricing clause in 1989.
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Ranking Member Cassidy, Colleagues Unveil Landmark Package to Lower Education Costs and Student Debt
Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Chuck Grassley (R-IA), John Cornyn (R-TX), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), and Tim Scott (R-SC) introduced the groundbreaking Lowering Education Costs and Debt Act, a package of five bills aimed at directly addressing the issues driving the skyrocketing cost of higher education and the increasing amounts of debt students take on to attend school.
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Media Advisory: Cassidy, Colleagues to Hold Press Conference on Legislative Solution to Lower College Costs and Student Debt
Tomorrow, June 14th, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, along with U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) will hold a press conference to discuss their legislative solution to address the skyrocketing cost of higher education and the increasing amounts of debt students take on to attend college.
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Ranking Member Cassidy Seeks Answers from Julie Su on Alarming Status of Labor Dispute at West Coast Ports
Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, raised concerns to Department of Labor (DOL) Acting Secretary Julie Su regarding the stalled labor negotiations at West Coast ports, which have resulted in work stoppages and decreased productivity that has exacerbated the nation’s supply chain issues.
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Ranking Member Cassidy Calls Out EEOC’s Failure to Fully Implement Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, is seeking answers from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on its failure to propose rules on worker accommodations as required by the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). Cassidy was the lead Republican cosponsor of PWFA, which allowed access to reasonable workplace accommodations for pregnant workers or those affected with medical conditions related to childbirth.
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Ranking Member Cassidy, Colleagues Hold Press Conference on Landmark Package to Lower Education Costs and Student Debt
Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, along with U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) held a press conference to discuss their groundbreaking Lowering Education Costs and Debt Act, a package of five bills aimed at directly addressing the issues driving the skyrocketing cost of higher education and the increasing amounts of debt students take on to attend school. The senators, along with U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), introduced the legislation earlier today.
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Sanders, Jayapal and Colleagues Introduce Legislation to Make College Tuition- and Debt-Free for Working Families
The College for All Act would be fully paid for by the Tax on Wall Street Speculation Act, also introduced today by Sanders in the Senate and Lee in the House
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Ranking Member Cassidy, Thune, Capito Seek Answers on the True Cost of Biden’s Loan Schemes
Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, John Thune (R-SD), and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) urged U.S. Department of Education (ED) Secretary Miguel Cardona to abandon the agency’s unfair student loan schemes and instead focus on preparing borrowers and loan servicers to resume student loan repayments.
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Ranking Member Cassidy, Tuberville Attempt to Uncover Details of Tragic Deaths During NIH-Funded Transgender Youth Study
U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) are seeking answers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) following the suicide deaths of two youth participants who were involved in a NIH-funded study that observed the effects of hormone treatments on transgender youths as young as 12 years old.