The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee is scheduled to meet Thursday to consider two U.S. Department of Labor nominees.
The meeting follows a HELP Committee hearing on Oct. 7 about the nominations of Lisa Gomez for assistant secretary for the Employee Benefits Security Administration and James Rodriguez for Assistant Secretary for Veterans Employment and Training.
Lisa Gomez, nominated to be assistant secretary for the Employee Benefits Security Administration.
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Other nominations on the agenda are for Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson to chair the National Endowment for the Arts, Shelly Lowe to chair the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Susan Harthill to be a member of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, a White House press release said. The nominees were among those announced by the White House in July.
The meeting is expected to begin at 10 a.m. in 216 Hart in the Senate Office Building in Washington.
Gomez is a law partner in the firm Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP, where she practiced employee benefits law, according to her bio released by the White House. If her nomination is confirmed, Gomez will lead one of the main government agencies for employee benefits law.
Rodriguez is currently principal deputy assistant secretary for policy for Veterans' Employment and Training Service, according to the Department of Labor. He will lead that agency if his nomination is confirmed.
