Dr. Bill Cassidy is the senior United States Senator for Louisiana.
Bill grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and attended Louisiana State
University (LSU) for undergraduate and medical school. In 1990, Bill joined
LSU Medical School teaching medical students and residents at Earl K.
Long Hospital, a hospital for the uninsured.
During this time, he co-founded the Greater Baton Rouge Community
Clinic, a clinic providing free dental and health care to the working
uninsured. Bill also created a private-public partnership to vaccinate
36,000 greater Baton Rouge area children against Hepatitis B at no cost to
the schools or parents. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Bill led a group of
health care volunteers to convert an abandoned K-Mart building into an
emergency health care facility, providing basic health care to hurricane
evacuees.
In 2006, Bill was elected to the Louisiana State Senate.
In 2008, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives to
represent Louisiana’s Sixth Congressional District.
In 2014, he was elected to the U.S. Senate. Cassidy serves as Chairman of the
Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions (HELP) Committee and serves as a member
of the Finance Committee, the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and the
Veterans Affairs Committee.
Following his successful efforts to lower the cost of health care, secure
coastal restoration projects to protect Louisiana families from natural
disasters, reform our nation’s mental health system, and secure many
other legislative accomplishments, Bill was reelected in 2020 to his second
term in the U.S. Senate.
In 2023, he became Ranking Member of the Senate HELP Committee and was
elevated to Chairman in 2025. He is the first physician to serve as HELP Ranking
Member or Chairman since 1933, when it was called the Education and Labor
Committee.
