Suggestion comes after the competence of several legislators – both Democrat and Republican – has come into question

Congress should have a rule requiring certain top federal officials to disclose medical records, the Republican US senator Bill Cassidy said on Sunday.

Speaking on NBC’s Meet the Press, Cassidy – a gastroenterologist who was elected as a US senator for Louisiana in 2008 – said that it “should certainly be a House rule” for elected officials to disclose their medical records.