Labor, Civil Rights Officials to Get Senate Panel Markup (1)

A Senate labor panel will consider two labor nominees next week for roles that have lacked confirmed officials for the entirety of the Biden administration.

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will consider Jessica Looman, nominee for the chief role at the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division, and Karla Gilbride, nominee for general counsel of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, on Sept. 21.

Both Looman and Gilbride appeared before the committee in a hearing earlier this week.

Looman had been serving as acting administrator of the wage agency until she was nominated for the role, at ...