The U.S. Senate confirmed Brittany Panuccio, an assistant U.S. attorney for the Justice Department in Florida, as a commissioner for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in a 51-47 vote Tuesday.
Panuccio’s confirmation restores a quorum to EEOC, which has operated with only two commissioners since January, when President Donald Trump fired Democratic commissioners Charlotte Burrows and Jocelyn Samuels before the expiration of their terms.
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