Advocates rethink bid to revive ADA after surveying new Congress.(Americans with Disabilities Act)
Older Americans Report, January, 2005
In the 14 years since Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Supreme Court has not always interpreted it the way the law's framers hoped, giving rise to a proposal last month by the National Council on Disability to strengthen the original law.
With a new and more conservative Congress in place, however, advocates for seniors and people with disabilities are reassessing their options, with an eye to holding their fire on the so-called "ADA Restoration Act."
NCD Chairman Lex Frieden says there is bipartisan unity to protect people with disabilities from discrimination.
But Curtis Decker, executive director of the National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems, questions whether this is a good time, politically, to...
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