The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, led by its chairman Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), held an event ...

La., chaired a hearing Thursday that shed light on ways to increase access to charter schools across the country.

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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who serves as chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), proposed two bills designed to help employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs).

Sen. Susan Collins — who could decide the fate of the budget bill — said the new strategy "violates current law." ...

US health chief Kennedy clashes with lawmakers over vaccine comments – Nation and World News | West Hawaii Today ...

Kennedy faced questions on vaccines, canceled medical research, and his drastic overhaul of the federal health agency.

Catch up on the political news of the past week in the latest At the Races newsletter, including education policy and the ...

A new federal proposal to create a $20 billion school voucher program seeks to provide scholarships for private school ...

Ben & Jerry’s Ben arrested at Senate hearing protesting the killing of Gaza children with US bombs - The protest erupted as ...

The debate over Medicaid is actually a debate about priorities, writes Bob Casey. Do we want to be a country where a family ...

Bill Plaschke, an L.A. Times sports columnist since 1996, is a member of the National Sports Media Hall of Fame and California Sports Hall of Fame. He has been named national Sports Columnist of ...