Category: Bill Cassidy

LIVE 2 PM ET: Sen. Cassidy Holds Press Conference on Student Loan Bill

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) leads a press conference at 2:00 p.m. ET on June 14 on a bill to help cut college costs and debt. …


Sen. Cassidy Holds Press Conference on Student Loan Bill

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) leads a press conference at 2:00 p.m. ET on June 14 on a bill to help cut college costs and debt. …


GOP Senators Introduce Resolution to Reverse Biden’s Student Debt Cancellation Program

U.S. Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), and 36 of their Republican colleagues have introduced a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn President Joe Biden’s student loan cancellation program. The senators claim in their March 27 announcement of the legislation that the policy violates the limits of Biden’s executive authority…


Walensky Defends Most of CDC Workforce Working Remotely

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Sept. 14 defended how most of the agency’s workers are working remotely every day or some days. “The people who need to be at CDC are at CDC,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director, told Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) during a hearing in Washington. Cassidy…


GOP Introduces Legislation to Criminalize Leaks of Confidential Information From SCOTUS

In light of a leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that drew protesters to justices’ homes, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Thursday introduced a bill that would make it a crime to leak confidential information from the nation’s highest court. The bill (pdf), titled Stop Supreme Court Leakers Act, aims to protect a range of…


Republican Senator Calls for ‘Cognition Tests’ for Older Government Leaders

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) has called for cognitive tests for older leaders in all three branches of the American government. Cassidy, also a physician, expressed his support for the testing during an “Axios on HBO” interview that aired Sunday on the network. “I’m told that there have been senators in the past who, at the end…


Democrats, Republicans Still ‘Far Apart’ on Infrastructure Deal: Senator

Republican and Democratic lawmakers have not come to a compromise on an infrastructure deal, according to one GOP senator, who added that Democrats have remained focused on providing unions billions of dollars and other organizations. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) told Fox News that some of the funding proposed by Democrats has little to do with…


Sen. Cassidy Claims Trump Won’t Be GOP Nominee in 2024

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Sunday alleged former President Donald Trump will not be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024. “I don’t think Donald Trump—one, he will be 78 years old—but I don’t think he will be our nominee,” Cassidy said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “Over the last four years, we have lost…


Cassidy Explains His Vote to Convict Trump in Column

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) penned a column published on Sunday defending his decision to vote against former President Donald Trump in the Senate impeachment trial. Cassidy, who was one of seven Republican senators who voted to convict Trump, wrote in an op-ed published in the Louisiana newspaper The Advocate that he was convinced the former president “was actively…


Cassidy Outlines His Vote to Convict Trump in Column

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) penned a column published on Sunday defending his decision to vote against former President Donald Trump in the Senate impeachment trial. Cassidy, who was one of seven Republican senators who voted to convict Trump, wrote in an op-ed published in the Louisiana newspaper The Advocate that he was convinced the former president “was actively…