(This July 13 story has been corrected to fix the spelling of ‘Kalpana Kotagal' in paragraph 2) 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 Kalpana Kotagal, a partner at prominent plaintiffs' law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, to a vacancy on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

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