Excerpt from Federal Programs to Promote Minority Business Development: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Minority Enterprise, Finance, and Urban Development of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, Washington, DC, May 18, 1993 Chairman mfume. Ladies and gentlemen, with deference to our ranking minority member, Mr. Machtley of Rhode Island, who has not joined us yet, we are going to delay this another 5 minutes before getting started. Ladies and gentlemen, this committee will come to order. Mem bers of the subcommittee, witnesses, ladies and gentlemen, today marks the first in a series of hearings to be convened by the Sub committee on Minority Enterprise, Finance, and Urban Develop ment to examine whether or not Federal programs designed to pro mote minority business development are, in fact, meeting the pur poses and the objectives set out by enactments that were set forth by the Congress. Today, we will be hearing from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Office of Personnel Management, and the Depart ment of Transportation will be also brought in to testify at future meetings of this subcommittee. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.