The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee plans to hold a hearing Thursday on the nomination of Lisa Gomez to head the Labor Department's Employee Benefits Security Administration.
In late July, President Joe Biden nominated Gomez, a partner at Cowen Weiss and Simon in New York, to head EBSA.
Gomez, who specializes in employee benefits law, joined the firm in 1994 and became a partner in 2002.
Gomez, who would replace former EBSA head Preston Rutledge, provides advice on compliance with a variety of health care and labor laws, including the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, the Internal Revenue Code and the Affordable Care Act.
If confirmed, she would join EBSA as Labor works to issue a proposed rulemaking to update the definition of "fiduciary" under ERISA.
