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Louisiana U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy joined Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, to lead two dozen Republican colleagues in introducing the Educational Choice for Children Act. The intention of the bicameral legislation is to expand educational freedom and opportunity for students,

Louisiana State Treasurer John Fleming, who is seeking to oust Sen. Bill Cassidy in 2026, is calling the senator a "RINO," or "Republican in name only."

Republican Louisiana U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy said Friday he will vote to confirm Pete Hegseth as President-elect Donald Trump's secretary of defense. Hegseth, a combat veteran and former Fox News host, is among Trump's more controversial cabinet nominees ...

U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy (LA-R) and Tim Scott (SC-R) led 24 Republican colleagues in introducing the Educational Choice for Children Act − bicameral legislation to expand educational freedom and opportunity for students.

Here's when and where Robert F. Kennedy will get his first hearing as President Trump's nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services.

Republican Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy has scheduled the first public hearing for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's controversial nominee for secretary of the U.S. Department of ...

Senator Bill Cassidy (LA-R) announced on Thursday that the National Science Foundation will grant the Louisiana Board of Regents $8 million for the Louisiana Networks of Excellence for Tomorrow project to expand STEM research and development in the region,

Mr. Kennedy appears to have most Republicans behind him as he seeks the job of health secretary, though he couldn’t escape his past stances on vaccines and abortion.

Sanders, the senior minority party member on the committee, pressed Kennedy to concede that health care was a human right, as his father, Robert F. Kennedy, and his uncles, John F. Kennedy and Edward Kennedy, had done. Kennedy again did not give a definitive answer.