Senate Confirms Kotagal for EEOC, Giving Democrats Majority (1)

The Senate approved Kalpana Kotagal’s nomination to be a commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, handing Democrats a majority for the first time since President Joe Biden took office.

Senators voted 49-47 Thursday to confirm Kotagal, a civil rights and employment attorney at Cohen Milstein in Washington, D.C., as the fifth commissioner on the agency tasked with prohibiting employment discrimination.

Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) was the sole Democrat to vote against Kotagal.

“Ms. Kotagal does not represent West Virginia values and would prioritize a partisan agenda over creating commonsense, bipartisan solutions that bring our nation forward,” Manchin said in ...