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Senator Tammy Duckworth And Paralympian Matt Scott Open Up About Making Fitness For All, Amending The ADA In Interview
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Jul 25, 2024,10:12pm EDT
Updated Jul 25, 2024, 10:27pm EDT
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Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) is sponsoring a “Fitness For All” bill.
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This week marks the 34th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) being signed into law by President George H.W. Bush in the South Lawn outside the White House. The event occurred on July 26, 1990, a seminal moment for the disability community and our collective civil rights. More than three decades later, two things about the landmark law’s enactment are indelibly etched into my psyche. It seems unfathomable that (1) it really took until I was almost 9 years old that disabled people had a codified set of rights in America; and (2) a Republican was willing to sign the bill. The latter strikes me as more incredulous than the first, if only because it has been made abundantly clear modern-day Republicans wouldn’t bother with such peasantry.
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