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Connie Morella: “I am pleased to comment this evening to this body on the 10th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act. I want…”

On the recordJuly 26, 2000
I am pleased to comment this evening to this body on the 10th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act. I want to make a quote: ``I now lift my pen to sign the Americans With Disabilities Act and say, let the shameful wall of exclusion finally come tumbling down.'' That was spoken by President Bush on July 26, 1990. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to reflect on how far we as a Nation have come since that summer day 10 years ago when I was honored to be an original cosponsor of the Americans With Disabilities Act. Today, I joined another President and disability advocates at the F.D.R. Memorial, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, to commemorate this landmark law.
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Connie Morella
Maryland
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Reflecting on the 10th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act.

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