{"id":13159,"name":"Bill Cassidy","first_name":"Bill","last_name":"Cassidy","middle_name":null,"suffix":null,"bioguide_id":"C001075","fec_candidate_id":null,"ocd_person_id":null,"govtrack_id":null,"opensecrets_id":null,"votesmart_id":null,"office_id":1,"party":"Republican","status":"active","photo_url":"https://www.congress.gov/img/member/c001075_200.jpg","website":"https://www.cassidy.senate.gov","campaign_url":null,"email":null,"phone":null,"social_twitter":null,"social_facebook":null,"social_instagram":null,"social_youtube":null,"state":"LA","district":null,"city":null,"assumed_office":"2009","term_end":"2015","born":"1957","source":"congress_gov","source_url":"https://api.congress.gov/v3/member/C001075","source_updated":"2026-05-09T12:13:18.245Z","first_seen":"2026-05-09 12:13:18","last_seen":"2026-05-09 12:13:18","created_at":"2026-05-09 12:13:18","updated_at":"2026-05-10 01:05:09","canonical_id":null,"fec_checked_at":null,"office_name":"U.S. Senator","level":"federal","branch":"legislative","office_chamber":"senate","positions":[{"topic":"Taxes","stance":"If You Send My Office Personal Information","detail":"My website is set up not to collect any personal information about you when you visit the site unless you choose to provide that information to me. The site has several online web forms that you can use to contact me to express your views or concerns, ask for assistance with a particular problem or agency, order a U.S. flag, request an appointment, or request tour information. To send me a message, the online web form asks for your name, address, email address, and, if you wish, your home or work telephone numbers. There are also additional fields within each form, which help to better serve your particular needs. I use this information to contact you regarding the matter about which you expressed your interest and to provide any casework assistance I can concerning the problems you may be experiencing. This information will be available to members of my staff so they can help me in responding to your message or request. If you are requesting help with a casework matter, it also may be necessary for my office to share the information you provide with the government agency from which you are requesting assistance, in order to respond to your request. Other than when needed to perform constituent casework at your request, or in the course of an authorized law enforcement investigation or emergency posing an imminent risk to public safety, my office will share no personal information communicated through my website with any outside organization or individual. My office tabulates comments received through my website concerning legislation and government policy issues so that I will be fully informed about the views of constituents. From time to time, I come across a comment of general interest made by a constituent, or a situation described by a constituent, in an email message (as well as postal mail, phone calls, and faxes) that I would like to refer to in a speech, include in the Congressional Record, or make some other use of, either in connection with debate in the","source_url":"https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/privacy/","source_date":"2026-05-23"},{"topic":"Technology","stance":"If You Send My Office Personal Information","detail":"My website is set up not to collect any personal information about you when you visit the site unless you choose to provide that information to me. The site has several online web forms that you can use to contact me to express your views or concerns, ask for assistance with a particular problem or agency, order a U.S. flag, request an appointment, or request tour information. To send me a message, the online web form asks for your name, address, email address, and, if you wish, your home or work telephone numbers. There are also additional fields within each form, which help to better serve your particular needs. I use this information to contact you regarding the matter about which you expressed your interest and to provide any casework assistance I can concerning the problems you may be experiencing. This information will be available to members of my staff so they can help me in responding to your message or request. If you are requesting help with a casework matter, it also may be necessary for my office to share the information you provide with the government agency from which you are requesting assistance, in order to respond to your request. Other than when needed to perform constituent casework at your request, or in the course of an authorized law enforcement investigation or emergency posing an imminent risk to public safety, my office will share no personal information communicated through my website with any outside organization or individual. My office tabulates comments received through my website concerning legislation and government policy issues so that I will be fully informed about the views of constituents. From time to time, I come across a comment of general interest made by a constituent, or a situation described by a constituent, in an email message (as well as postal mail, phone calls, and faxes) that I would like to refer to in a speech, include in the Congressional Record, or make some other use of, either in connection with debate in the","source_url":"https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/privacy/","source_date":"2026-05-23"},{"topic":"Criminal Justice","stance":"If You Send My Office Personal Information","detail":"My website is set up not to collect any personal information about you when you visit the site unless you choose to provide that information to me. The site has several online web forms that you can use to contact me to express your views or concerns, ask for assistance with a particular problem or agency, order a U.S. flag, request an appointment, or request tour information. To send me a message, the online web form asks for your name, address, email address, and, if you wish, your home or work telephone numbers. There are also additional fields within each form, which help to better serve your particular needs. I use this information to contact you regarding the matter about which you expressed your interest and to provide any casework assistance I can concerning the problems you may be experiencing. This information will be available to members of my staff so they can help me in responding to your message or request. If you are requesting help with a casework matter, it also may be necessary for my office to share the information you provide with the government agency from which you are requesting assistance, in order to respond to your request. Other than when needed to perform constituent casework at your request, or in the course of an authorized law enforcement investigation or emergency posing an imminent risk to public safety, my office will share no personal information communicated through my website with any outside organization or individual. My office tabulates comments received through my website concerning legislation and government policy issues so that I will be fully informed about the views of constituents. From time to time, I come across a comment of general interest made by a constituent, or a situation described by a constituent, in an email message (as well as postal mail, phone calls, and faxes) that I would like to refer to in a speech, include in the Congressional Record, or make some other use of, either in connection with debate in the","source_url":"https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/privacy/","source_date":"2026-05-23"},{"topic":"Technology","stance":"Links to Other Sites","detail":"My website has links to other useful sites on the internet, including sites of other government agencies and sites relating to my home state. If you follow any link that takes you to a location that does not include ‘senate.gov’ in the address, you will have left the Senate web server and you will need to refer to that site’s own privacy policy.