NOMINATION

WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1975

U.S. SENATE,

COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE,

Washington, D.C. The Committee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:08 a.m., in Room 4232, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Senator Harrison A. Williams, Jr., Chairman, presiding.

Present: Senators Williams, Pell, Javits, Schweiker, and Taft. Committee staff present: Donald Elisburg, general counsel; George Sape, associate labor counsel; and Don Zimmerman, minority labor counsel.

The CHAIRMAN. Today's Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee is meeting to hear and examine the nomination of Mr. Sibal submitted by the President for an important Federal post, that of General Counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. A copy of Mr. Sibal's biography and other pertinent information will be inserted in the record at this point.

[The biography of Mr. Sibal, and an excerpt from Public Law 92-261, establishing the Office of General Counsel follow:]

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Member, Connecticut & District of
Columbia Bars; Formerly: Partner
Sibal, Hefferan & Rimer, Norwalk and
Wilton, Connecticut; and Gadsby & Hannah,
Washington, D.C.; Prosecuting Attorney,
Norwalk; Corporation Counsel, Norwalk;
and Chairman, Connecticut Commission on
Corporation Law. Member, American,
Connecticut and D.C. Bar Associations.

Member, Connecticut State Senate, 1957-61;
Minority Leader, 1959-61; Member 87th and
88th Congress, member Committee on Interstate
& Foreign Commerce, Subcommittees on Transpor-
tation & Aeronautics and Communications and
Power; Congressional delegate to U.N. International
Communications Convention, Geneva; Member,
Republican Congressional Campaign Committee;
Member, Platform Committee Republican National
Convention, 1964;