US Senate vote gives Democrats control of workplace bias agency

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate narrowly confirmed President Joe Biden's nominee to the agency that enforces workplace bias laws, giving Democrats a majority on the five-member panel that would allow it to enforce pro-worker polices backed by his administration. The Democrat-led Senate voted 49-47 along party lines on Thursday to confirm civil rights lawyer Kolpana Kotagal, a partner at prominent plaintiffs' law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, to a vacancy on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEOC has had a Democratic chair, Charlotte Burrows, since ear...