Julia Brownley actually said...

"I want to thank you all for being here. I think this is the first time we have had a hearing on minority veterans."

"You know, I lead a Women Veterans Task Force and so we have been talking a lot around issues that impact women veterans and trying to find inequities and address those."

"We know racial bias in health care contributes to different outcomes and increased fatalities."

"It is the undoing of bias and the building of trust that VA must work toward."