Of Interest…
In 2006, Reps. Steny Hoyer and F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., introduced “introduced House Resolution 6258, the “Americans with Disabilities Act Restoration Act of 2006″.” It would change the language of the ADA in a way that would broaden the law and restore it’s to the original intent: to fight discrimination.
“The Supreme Court’s interpretations of this historic law have been largely inconsistent with the original intent of Congress and President George H.W. Bush in enacting the ADA,” said Congressman Hoyer. “This is not what Congress intended when it passed the ADA. We intended the law to be broadly — not narrowly — interpreted. The point of the law is not disability; the point is discrimination.”
To read the rest of the article, go to the Inclusion Daily News Archive. The link to the bill text at the bottom doesn’t work, and since the law never got anywhere it’s not in the Library of Congress Archives.