Full Committee Hearing

"Protecting Workers from Genetic Discrimination"


Subcommittee: Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee, Workforce Protections Subcommittee Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 Time: 10:00 AM

Agenda

Panel I:

Congresswoman Louise Slaughter, Sponsor of the Genetic Non-Discrimination Information Act (GINA)
28th Congressional District of New York

Congresswoman Judy Biggert, Lead co-sponsor of the Genetic Non-Discrimination Information Act
13th Congressional District of Illinois

Panel II:

Karen Rothenberg, Dean and Marjorie Cook Professor of Law
University of Maryland School of Law
Baltimore, MD

David Escher, Former employee
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad
Reno, NV

Harriet Pearson, Vice President
Corporate Affairs and Chief Privacy Officer

IBM Corporation
Washington, DC

Burton J. Fishman, Partner
Fortney Scott LLP
Genetic Information Nondiscrimination in Employment (GINE) Coalition