Rick.Allan@p0.f460.n101.z1.fidonet.org (Rick Allan) (06/07/90)
Index Number: 8731
TASK FORCE ON THE RIGHTS AND EMPOWERMENT
OF AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES
Justin Dart, Chairperson, 907 6th Street,
S.W., Suite 516C, Washington, D.C., 20024
(202)488-7684 Voice (202)484-1370 TDD
(202)863-0010 Fax
ADA REPORT - MAY 23, 1990
Congratulations Patriots!
Strong Ada Passed By The House 403-20
A Few More Steps To Final Victory
Action: calls, cards, letters, visits, awards, flowers, cookies to
thank the members of the house who supported justice. urge them,
the members of the ada conference committee and house and senate
leaders to move immediately through the conference process and to
final approval of the strongest possible version of ADA. urge the
president to sign ada promptly, and to give the nation a ringing
mandate to implement ada rights.
Colleagues, thanks to your hard work and sacrifices over the years,
the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Americans with
Disabilities Act on May 22. The final vote, 403-20, does not
reflect the very real struggle which took place over the principle
of equality.
The votes on several seriously weakening amendments were much
closer. An amendment severely limiting the amount of money
employers were required to spend on accommodations for employees
with disabilities was defeated 213-187; an amendment which would
have eliminated people with disabilities as equal beneficiaries
with other minorities of possible stronger remedies under the
proposed Civil Rights Act of 1990 was defeated 227-192; an
amendment to exempt all cities with populations under 200,000 from
the requirements of fully accessible public bus transportation was
defeated 266-148; an amendment requiring commuter rail trains to
have only one accessible car was defeated 290-110.
Three compromise amendments were passed with our support. We
suffered one setback when an amendment passed 199-187 allowing the
transfer of people with infectious diseases who work as food
handlers to other positions without loss of pay.
The overall result is hailed by our Congressional sponsors and
disability community colleagues as a landmark victory for human
justice - "the Declaration of Independence and Emancipation
Proclamation of people with disabilities" in the world.
But the battle for ADA is not over yet. The Senate and the House
versions of the Act must be reconciled by a Senate-House conference
committee - hopefully in early June - the House and Senate must
give final approval to the unified version of ADA, and the
President must sign it.
PATRIOTS IN ACTION
Congratulations to our patriot leaders in the House: STENY HOYER,
HAMILTON FISH, GLEN ANDERSON, NORMAN MINETA, STEVE BARTLETT, MAJOR
OWENS, STEVE GUNDERSON, JACK BROOKS, JOHN DINGELL, GUS HAWKINS,
BRUCE MORRISON, MELLISSA SCHULMAN, MARIA CUPRILL, BOB TATE, STUART
ISHIMARU, ROGER SLAGLE, PAT MORRISSEY and many others.
Congratulations to our magnificent negotiating team: PAT WRIGHT,
LIZ SAVAGE, RALPH NEAS, CHAI FELDBLUM, PAUL MARCHAND, JIM WEISSMAN,
ARLENE MAYERSON and more.
Congratulations to our Washington, DC area advocates including
SHARON MISTLER, BOB WILLIAMS, KATHY MCGIVERN, EVAN KEMP, JANINE
BERTRAM, BOB FUNK, MONICA HALL, PHIL CALKINS, HAROLD SNIDER, LAURI
SUMMERS, MARK LEWIS, ERICA JONES, ELLEN DALY, GARY SMITH, MARY JANE
OWEN, ALICE AND ROBERT DEMICHELIS AND JAY AND GWYNETH ROCHLIN.
Congratulations to those who traveled long distances to lobby in
the Congress including MARYLIN GOLDEN, JIM TUSCHER, JUDY HEUMANN,
DUANE FRENCH, DICK POMO, LARRY ROBINSON, ERIC GRIFFIN, KATHY
MCINNIS, ILENE HULL, JEAN STEWART, GERALD BAPTISTE, DENISE MCQUADE,
SHELLEY TEED-WARGO, MICHAEL GIBSON, MICHAEL WINTER AND HUNDREDS OF
MEMBERS OF NCIL.
Congratulations to the thousands of patriots throughout the nation
who acted inspirationally for justice in the final days of House
debate on ADA. A very few of them: all the MAGNIFICENT MEMBERS OF
THE CCD TELEPHONE NETWORK, JIM DEJONG, MARY LINDEN and the MEMBERS
OF THE ILLINOIS COALITION, WADE BLANK, MIKE AUBERGER and the
MEMBERS OF ADAPT, LEX FRIEDEN, JUDY SOKOLOW, BOB KAFKA, STEPHANIE
THOMAS, DURWARD MCDANIEL, CAROLE PATTERSON, RALPH ROUSE, PEG NOSEK,
LAURIE GERKEN and the MEMBERS OF THE TEXAS COALITION, HARRY SMITH
and COLLEAGUES IN MICHIGAN, STEVE BROWN and the OKLAHOMA COALITION,
JUDY BUFFMIRE, BLAINE PETERSON and COLLEAGUES IN UTAH, FRED FAY,
ELMER BARTELS, JOHN CHAPEL AND COLLEAGUES IN MASSACHUSETTS, ART
PEPINE, ZIPPY BENAVRAHAM, BOB COOPER, RICK DOUGLAS, DAVE WILLIAMS,
KEITH WILLIAMS, MARY LYNN FLETCHER, BILL SCOTT, SHARON MIKRUT, AMY
BRILL, GOPAL PATI, JERRY SNYDER, SHARON MILLER, SIGI SHAPIRO,
LOUISE REVENEL, DOUG MARTIN, FRANCES RUEGG, ELIZABETH BOGGS, STEVE
JANICK, KEN FRANKLIN, PHYLLIS DOERING, JUDY GILLIOM and MAGGIE
ROFFEE.
THANK HOUSE SUPPORTERS OF ADA. CONTACT HOUSE AND SENATE LEADERS
AND MEMBERS OF THE ADA CONFERENCE COMMITTEE TO GIVE PROMPT FINAL
APPROVAL TO A STRONG ADA. URGE THE PRESIDENT TO GIVE HIS FULL
SUPPORT TO POSITIVE ACTION BY THE CONGRESS, TO SIGN ADA PROMPTLY,
AND TO LEAD THE NATION TO MAKE ADA RIGHTS REAL IN EVERY DAY LIFE.
The House members of the ADA conference committee are: Democrats -
Hoyer, Hawkins, Major Owens, Martinez, Dingell, Markey, Thomas
Luken, Anderson, Roe, Mineta, Brooks, Don Edwards, Kastenmeier,
Chapman. Republicans - Bartlett, Fawell, Lent, Whittaker,
Hammerschmidt, Shuster, Fish, Sensenbrenner.
The Senate members have not been chosen yet, but presumably will
include Senators, Harkins, Kennedy, Dole and Durenberger.
Any member of the House and Senate can be reached
at the following address and telephone number:
U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.
20515; 202-224-3121
U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510; 202-224-3121
Write and call the President: The White House,
Washington, D.C. 20500; 202-456-7639
===========================Thanks to everyone n the echo here who
called = and there were a LOT o0f calls! Thanks also for your patience
with my long -posts... Onward and upward ! Rick
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