On the recordJuly 22, 2010
let me say to my friend, I was proud to stand with the Senator from Utah 20 years ago. We stood here together. We got the bill through. I remember so vividly, in my mind's eye, when we walked out to that anteroom. I mean, few people are blessed in their lifetimes to have that kind of a moment where something so meaningful was done and to see so many people whose lives before that were stunted because they didn't have the accessibility. Now to see this sort of wall come tumbling down--I remember our association so well. I know my friend would agree this was not a slam dunk; it was not a very easy thing that we brought out on one day and it just happened. Senator Hatch and I worked on this for years. It took a long time to work out. But through the good faith of people on all sides with whom we worked--the disability rights community, all the different disability groups, and the chamber of commerce supported the bill--in the end, we worked together to bring everybody together. But it was a long process, as the Senator remembers.
