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Bill Cassidy

Bill Cassidy

Bill Cassidy is a physician and the senior U.S. Senator from Louisiana, serving as chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee. He is the first physician to sit as HELP chair. In 2023 he became Ranking Member of the Senate HELP Committee and was elevated to Chairman in 2025. He is a Republican and has publicly characterised certain government spending as inflationary. He voted to convict Donald Trump during the 2021 impeachment trial and subsequently lost his primary election.

Country
United States
Field
Politics
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Fact checks
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Record

  • Controversy · January 1, 2021

    2021 impeachment vote and primary defeat

    Bill Cassidy voted to convict Donald Trump during the 2021 impeachment trial, a decision that drew criticism from Trump and his supporters; he subsequently lost his primary election. [1]

Affiliations

  • United States Senate

    Bill Cassidy is the senior U.S. Senator from Louisiana and serves as chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee. [2]

  • Republican Party

    Bill Cassidy is affiliated with the Republican Party. [3]

Sources

  1. [1]nbcnews.com
  2. [2]help.senate.gov
  3. [3]cassidy.senate.gov
  4. [4]Photo: United States Congress / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain

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