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EEOC Nominee Bridal Panuccio Says She Would Enforce Title VII, But Senators Press on Independence and Presidential Control
Summary
Bridal Panuccio, President Trump’s nominee to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, told the Senate HELP Committee she would enforce Title VII but described the EEOC as an executive branch agency; senators queried whether presidential directives could limit investigations and how she would approach issues such as DEI and past EEOC actions.
Bridal Panuccio, President Trump’s nominee to serve as a commissioner on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, told the Senate HELP Committee on July 16 that she is committed to vigorously enforcing Title VII of the Civil Rights Act if confirmed, but described the EEOC as an executive-branch agency that operates with prosecutorial discretion.
Panuccio, who currently serves as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of Florida, told senators she had devoted part of her career to civil-rights work and said she would ‘‘vigorously enforce’’ Title VII where the evidence supports it. "Title VII prohibits discrimination on the basis of a variety of different protected characteristics…and if I have the privilege of being confirmed as a commissioner, I would vigorously enforce that law," she said.
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