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ADAPT Condemns The Passing Of HR 620 Bill In The House

February 16, 2018 Staff, Adapt.org Educate! Disability Rights, House, Legislation

Today, 59 million Americans with disabilities witnessed the U.S House of Representatives torpedo their civil rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act. HR620 was passed, and civil rights of disabled and older Americans went down in defeat. Over 27 years after passage of the world’s first comprehensive civil rights law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of disability the business-backed House of “the people” chose “profits over people.” The House decided that the burden of getting justice for discrimination against people with disabilities lies with the victim. Where is the justice in that? Even though more than 500 disability organizations sent letters to Congress opposing the bill, the Representatives who voted for the bill decided that the people with disabilities are second class citizens whose rights do not matter.

House Approves Bill To Address Perceived Threat Of Paid Protesters

May 8, 2017 Matt Trotter, www.publicradiotulsa.org Educate! House, Legislation, Protesters

By Matt Trotter for Public Radio Tulsa - Citing costs faced by North Dakota in the wake of Dakota Access Pipeline protests, the Oklahoma House passed a bill creating liability for anyone who compensates protesters. House Bill 2128 says anyone who compensates, remunerates or provides consideration to someone who causes damage while trespassing may be held liable. Rep. Mark McBride faced a barrage of questions from Democrats, including Rep. Cory Williams, who asked what constitutes compensation under HB2128. "It means just what we want it to on this bill. How about that?" McBride said. "I'm sorry, what?" Williams said. "Is it a check? Is it money? Is it staying at somebody's house? Is it some other benefit conferred?" "That would be for the courts to decide," McBride said. "All due respect, we're supposed to be writing laws. They interpret them. Our laws should have definitions in them," Williams said. Rep. Collin Walke bristled at a provision saying an arrest — not necessarily a conviction — is enough to create that liability.

Ryan: TPP Doesn’t Have Support For House Vote This Year

August 6, 2016 Vicki Needham, www.thehill.com Educate! Congress, House, TPP

By Vicki Needham for The Hill - Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis) on Thursday said an expansive Asia-Pacific trade deal won’t get a vote in Congress this year because there isn’t enough support. Ryan said there is no point in bringing up the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal in the lame-duck session after the November elections because he doesn't see how the Obama administration can build enough support for the controversial agreement by year's end.

Is Republican Support For Fast Track Collapsing?

June 10, 2015 Matthew Boyle, www.breitbart.com Educate! Congress, fast track, House, Politics, TPP

By Matthew Boyle in BreitBart - Below are two articles from Breitbart reporting a very different situation in Congress that is being report in the corporate media that covers Capitol Hill. While Politico and The Hill quote Paul Ryan saying -- "we're close" -- (something he has said repeatedly for weeks) and John Boehner -- "we're confident, but not certain" -- and then Breitbart, reporting from the perspective of grassroots Republicans in two articles they describe Republican support as collapsing under intensive grassroots pressure. One article describes a wall of phone calls into congressional offices opposing "ObamaTrade". On Monday night Republican grassroots activists held a twitter storm against TPA that trended nationally as a hot topic. The second Breitbart article says that leadership is not even getting its phone calls returned from Republicans and that Boehner has been unable to point to any new Republican saying that they will support fast track.

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