Bill Cassidy

In May of 2020, Senator Brown and I introduced legislation to ensure that lower-income families impacted by the coronavirus outbreak could use their wages reported in the 2019 tax return to determine their eligibility for the EITC and the…

One thing that I proposed is that in Louisiana, with our geography, we tend to get more hurricanes than almost anybody else, maybe more than anybody else, and almost every time there is a major disaster in whatever stage it occurs, there…

Some of this just defies common sense, and it is word games in order to advance an agenda.

We need to go back to the economy we had before COVID hit.

I once heard somebody say that, paradoxically, renewables in the current environment, by forcing the construction of baseload facilities, but simultaneously forcing the decommissioning of nuclear power plants, which would be the natural…

Yes, but there must be some reason for it. There must be a lower cost of doing business.

I think we really need to be clear on what the critical goods are, and when we talk about incentivizing companies to do this, we need to recognize that there are a lot of government obstacles, impediments, and regulations that have forced…

Are you suggesting--and just to be explicit--that we may consider doing a U.S. subsidy for a manufacturing facility that would be built not in the United States but in a near-shore country?

I am not saying other countries like Mexico have a lower standard, but I think the company may be more comfortable producing a fermentated product in a country like Mexico as they currently are in China.

I need some legislation. So what's my legislation going to read? How do we thread that needle?

We want the orphan drug benefit, but we also don't want this kind of arbitrage where it then introduces a higher price than it should be for something else.

The initial stimulus checks that were as generous as they were... killed their ability to recruit staffing.

Even after hearing -- even after hearing of this at 2:24 p.m., President Trump tweeted that Mike Pence lacked courage.

Democrats are selling out their own voters in a brazen attempt to permanently solidify their majority. States make their own voting laws, not the federal government. This power grab is shameful.

This position is one of the most important decisions that no one ever hears of.

We have got to win in two years. We have got to win in four years. If we do that, we will do that by speaking to those issues that are important to the American people.

I just encourage that that be resolved ASAP so the folks back home who work in rice mills have fuller employment.

We are getting subsidized shrimp refused elsewhere because of phytosanitary concerns, putting my folks out of business.

I enjoyed our phone conversation. I like the nuanced way in which you spoke of our relationship with China.

I truly hope, if you are appointed, that you are guided by science and not by the President's political agenda.

I am representing those families who just lost their jobs because of the cancellation of the XL Pipeline.

Your agenda of the Biden Administration threatens the funding of the Great American Outdoors Act.

Our Constitution and our country is more important than any one person. I voted to convict President Trump because he is guilty.

The president knew that people had invaded. They were approaching the Senate chamber. The president had knowledge at that point, and then the tweet went out.

Senator Tuberville reports that he spoke to President Trump at 2:15 p.m. He told the president that the vice president had just evacuated.