Eleanor Holmes Norton: “I do want to note that the gentleman is correct that women are covered. They are already covered. One-third of those…”

“I do want to note that the gentleman is correct that women are covered. They are already covered. One-third of those covered under the DBE category of minority and ethnic groups are minorities. So we do have large numbers of women and minorities covered, and the disparity studies have been done as to them. No disparity studies have been done as to veterans as a whole. If the gentleman wants to do such a study, we invite him to work with us in doing a disparity study on veterans rather than blowing up the whole program. I now yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Cummings), a member of the committee and my good friend.”