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001. profile
Roundtable Discussion on the Fifth Anniversary of the ADA; RE:
07/26/1995
b(6)
Personal [partial] (1 page)
COLLECTION:
Clinton Presidential Records
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Deborah Fine
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Americans with Disabilities Act
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RR. Document will be reviewed upon request.
March 7, 1995
MEMORANDUM FOR CAROL RASCO, HAROLD ICKES AND KEN APFEL
FROM:
Debbie Fine
SUBJECT:
Rescission Briefing for Disability Community
DATE:
Wednesday, March 8, 1995
TIME:
4:00PM
LOCATION:
Room 324, OEOB
I.
PURPOSE
The purposes of this briefing are to:
underscore the administration's opposition to the rescission package,
give a brief overview of the impact of the rescission package with a disability focus,
mobilize further activity in the community in opposition to the package.
II.
MESSAGE
The message running throughout the briefing and discussion should be consistent with our
broader message points:
These cuts are part of a larger attack on children and families in order to fund a tax
cut for the wealthy,
These cuts are part of a broader attack on laws related to the Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA) and programs that make the ADA a reality.
The President is taking a strong leadership role fighting against these cuts and
advocating that the federal government has an important role to play.
III.
BACKGROUND
Although the disability community tends to be bi-partisan in that its agenda is more important
than any political alignment, they lean Democratic and have been very loyal to this
Administration. The leaders in the community feel that they have been at the table for policy
decisions more than during any other administration. As a result, they have provided the
ground troops fighting on our behalf for various initiatives, particularly health care reform.
The current political climate, and specifically the Contract with America, threatens to
eliminate many programs and laws that this community has fought hard to achieve over the
years. The issues they have fought the hardest on most recently are the Balanced Budget
Amendment, SSI reform under welfare reform, and the rescission package. They have been
actively lobbying against these cuts and reforms on the Hill, and educating and activating
their memberships in the states against them. (Attached is an example of an alert on the
Rescission package.)
Impact of Rescissions and other Reforms on the Disability Community
It is important to make the point to participants that cuts in the Rescission package and other
reforms currently being proposed that are not disability-specific, still impact people with
disabilities. (For example, programs like WIC nutrition services and food packages serve
people with disabilities and their families.)
In addition to the cuts that the White House has been highlighting in our talking points, the
cuts that impact people with disabilities in particular include the following:
HUD
63,000 households, including people with disabilities and people with AIDS, will
become homeless because they will not receive Section 8 Incremental Rental
Assistance certificates -- possibly resulting in inappropriate institutionalization of
people with disabilities.
$349.2 million will be cut from Community Development Block Grants. These funds
are used to fund compliance with the ADA.
Labor
There is a 30% cut from Pilots and Demonstrations (P&D). P&D funds are used to
cultivate customer-driven workforce development systems, evaluate projects to improve
services to disadvantaged adults and youth, and develop skill standards. They are
also used for programs that serve the needs of targeted groups, including people
with disabilities. Note: Goodwill Industries, represented at this briefing, has a grant
funded by P&D.
Cuts in JTPA Adult Training Grants Program, Summer Youth Employment and
Training Program, and Youth Training Grants Program also impact the disability
community. (There is a possibility that persons with disabilities would be
disproportionately impacted by program reductions because they are more expensive to
serve.)
Education
$1.5 million will be cut from Gallaudet University. (A representative from Gallaudet
will probably attend.)
$.5 million will be cut from the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in New
York.
SSI
Although reform of SSI falls under welfare reform rather than the rescissions, I think it is
important to tie this in because (1) it fits into the message of a Republican attack on children
and families that is short-sighted and mean-spirited, and (2) it is currently the most important
issue to this community.
IV.
AGENDA
Carol Rasco will open the meeting, make brief comments on the purpose of this
meeting and introduce Harold Ickes.
Harold Ickes will make brief remarks reenforcing the overall administration message
and strategy. (Harold must leave by 4:15.)
Ken Apfel will give a brief overview on the Rescissions (mentioning SSI.)
We will open up the discussion for questions and answers. (Larry Pearl from HUD
and Richard Sorrien from HHS will be available to help answer questions.)
Carol will underscore the President's commitment to this community and to the ADA,
and the need for participants to continue to be active on these issues. She will close
the meeting.
V.
PARTICIPANTS
Participants in this briefing are generally supportive activists in the disability community.
(There may be additions to the following list.)
Michael Allen, Bazelon Center for Mental Health
Lizbet Boroughs, National Mental Health Association
Jay Colbourne, AIDS Action Council
Justin Dart
Allen Dinsmore, American Foundation for the Blind
Mike Graul, Goodwill Industries
Charlie Harles, I Neighbor
Anne Marie Hughey, Executive Director of the National Council on Independent Living
Paul Marchand, Chair of the Consortium of Citizens with Disabilities and Director of
Government Affairs at the Arc
Kathy McGinley, The Arc and Co-Chair CCD Housing Task Force
Celane McWhorter, United Cerebral Palsey Association
Katy Beh Neas, National Easter Seal Society
Gary Rose, National Association of People With AIDS
Patti Smith, National Parent Network on Disabilities
Andrew Sperling, Co-Chair CCD Housing Task Force and National Community Mental
Healthcare Council
Kimberley Turner, Howard University Research and Training Center
Sylvia Walker, Howard University Research and Training Center
Julie Ward, Epilepsy Foundation
Staff
Carol Rasco
Harold Ickes
Ken Apfel
Larry Pearl, Director of Office of Program Standards and Evaluations, HUD Office of Fair
Housing
Diana Fortuna, DPC
Richard Sorrien, HHS and Office of National AIDS Policy
Debbie Fine
July 26, 1995
Roundtable Discussion On the Fifth Anniversary of the ADA
Biographies of Participants and Suggested Follow-Up
FOR PARTICIPANTS WITH A SPEAKING ROLE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE
MEETING:
DIANE LIPTON; Richmond, California
Diane will tell you about her daughter, Chloe, who is 23 years old and who has cerebral
palsy. She will describe Chloe's education history leading up to her current living situation:
she now has her own apartment (with a personal assistant), takes classes at the community
college, and through a community integration program she works at the YMCA and
participates in other local activities. Diane will describe how Chloe and her family
increasingly rely on the ADA to enable her to participate in community activities and
programs now that she has finished high school.
Possible Comments/Questions for Diane:
You mention the limited possiblities that would have existed for your daughter without
the ADA. Can you talk more about what that has meant in real terms both for you,
your daughter, and your family?
Do you think that as we begin to see new generations of people with disabilities grow
up under the ADA, in addition to IDEA, we will see an increase in employment levels
for people with disabilities?
DANNY DELCAMBRE; Seattle, Washington
Danny is the owner and chef of Delcambre's Ragin' Cajun Restaurant in Seattle. He employs
6 deaf and 2 hearing individuals. He will tell you how, when he graduated from culinary
school in Seattle, everyone in his class had gotten a job but him because he is deaf-blind. As
a result, he started his own business. He will tell you how the ADA has helped him, but he
will also tell you that it is not perfect yet. Danny may raise his concern that, although the
ADA is helping, you don't see a lot of employment opportunities for people with disabilities.
Potential Comments/Questions for Danny:
I share your concern. The fact that 68% of working age people with disabilities are
unemployed, compared to 19% of people without disabilities, indicates that we need to
do more. The fact that 79% of Americans with disabilities between the ages of 16 and
65 who are not working say that they would prefer to work demonstrates that we can
do more.
MISS AMERICA 1995, HEATHER WHITESTONE; Birmingham, Alabama
Heather Whitestone has been deaf since she was 18 months old; she is the first Miss America
with a disability. She will tell you about why she thinks the ADA is so important and about
what she has learned from her national speaking tour since last September, concentrating on
the importance of our youth setting high goals and working hard to achieve them.
Possible Questions/Comments for Heather:
As you've traveled around talking to youth all over the country, have you heard many
young people with disabilities talk about the impact they have felt since the telephone
relay system was enacted into law two years ago?
RONNIE PULLIAM; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ronnie will discuss how after years of living in rural North Carolina, where he was not very
involved in the community, he has become active in his community in Philadelphia through
his university and through Americorps. He is a member of Americorps through the
Administration on Developmental Disabilities, which receives Americorps funding to sponsor
three National Service projects in Alabama, Georgia, and Pennsylvania. One of Ronnie's
projects through Americorps is to support Speaking for Ourselves, a self-advocacy group of
people with mental retardation.
He credits Americorps with teaching him a tremendous amount about working with people
and revealing to him all of the options that exist for him, and others like him who have a
disability.
Possible Questions/Comments for Ronnie:
Ronnie, your program is one that I feel strongly about, and one that I proposed before
I became President. And I am now fighting cuts in the budget of both Americorps and
the Administration on Developmental Disabilities. These projects enable people to
serve their communities by providing personal assistance services to individuals with
disabilities and their families helping them become more independent and productive
members of their communities, giving them an alternative to living in a nursing home
or an institution.
I'd like to make another point here about personal assistance services. I have included
in my budget framework funding for long term and home and community-based
services. And as most of you know, I fought for this last year under health care
reform. Without these kinds of services, the vision of the ADA cannot become a
reality.
JUSTIN DART; Washington D.C.
As you know, Justin is a long-time civil rights and disability rights activist. He will discuss
the ADA in historical terms, briefly discuss some of his current concerns about myths and
misinformation on the ADA, in addition to addressing the impact of the current budget
proposals.
Possible Comments/Questions for Justin:
Justin, I agree with you on the vital importance of this legislation, the good that it has
done, and the potential it has to further empower people with disabilities and benefit
our nation as a whole.
Comment on the budget.
July 26, 1995
Roundtable Discussion On the Fifth Anniversary of the ADA
POSSIBLE QUESTIONS FOR THE GROUP TO DISCUSS:
1. Right now, there is a lot of talk in Washington; there are a lot of myths and
misinformation on the ADA, whether it is truly effective, and about whether it is too
burdensome.
Addressed to Marca Bristo:
Marca, you and the National Council on Disability just concluded a 50-state tour of town hall
meetings on the ADA. Can you tell us what you heard -- is the same debate going on outside
of the Beltway?
(She will give you a summary report of their findings.)
2. How do you think we can more effectively dispel these myths?
3. I would like to return to a point that Danny Delcambre made earlier in this discussion.
We have all acknowledged the many ways that the ADA has been good for people with
disabilities and for our nation as a whole. We also know that there are many barriers that
continue to prevent people with disabilities from becoming economically self-sufficient -- with
the result a disproportionately low level of employment for people with disabilities. I'd like
to hear your thoughts on what some of these barriers, and what we can do to remove them?
4. Because of the ADA, more children with disabilities are dreaming about a future. They
are studying harder and taking greater responsibility for their own lives. We have seen over
the past 20 years significant numbers of children with disabilities effectively included in
regular education settings. What makes a successful program, and what can we do to help
assure greater success for these children?
5. What are the priority budget areas that represent the investments necessary to achieve the
goals of the ADA?
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DOCUMENT NO.
SUBJECT/TITLE
DATE
RESTRICTION
AND TYPE
Roundtable Discussion on the Fifth Anniversary of the ADA; RE:
07/26/1995
001. profile
b(6)
Personal [partial] (1 page)
COLLECTION:
Clinton Presidential Records
Public Liaison
Deborah Fine
OA/Box Number: 8752
FOLDER TITLE:
Americans with Disabilities Act
2007-0143-F
db4537
RESTRICTION CODES
Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)]
Freedom of Information Act - 15 U.S.C. 552(b)]
P1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA]
b(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA]
P2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office I(a)(2) of the PRA]
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P3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA]
an agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA]
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financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA]
b(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial
P5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President
information [(b)(4) of the FOIA]
and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRAJ
b(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
P6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA]
personal privacy |(a)(6) of the PRA]
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of gift.
PRM. Personal record misfile defined in accordance with 44 U.S.C.
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concerning wells [(b)(9) of the FOIA]
RR. Document will be reviewed upon request.
July 26, 1995
Roundtable Discussion on the Fifth Anniversary of the ADA
PROFILES OF OTHER PARTICIPANTS:
JULIE CLARK; Springfield, Virginia
When filling out the application form for a Virginia state law license, Julie Clark encountered
a question inquiring into her history of treatment or counseling for mental, emotional, or
nervous conditions. Although several years prior she had been diagnosed with depression and
was treated for 13 months, she refused to answer the question because she felt it was a
private matter and that it did not focus on her current ability to practice as a lawyer.
Ms. Clark filed a suit against the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners challenging the question
as an unnecessarily broad inquiry into past mental health treatment, and one that was in
violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Department of Justice filed an amicus
brief in her favor. The Federal court ordered the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners to remove
or rephrase this question to comply with the ADA. The Virginia Board has appealed the
case.
Two years later, Julie still does not have her law license, although she passed the state's bar
examination. Her case was the first in a wave of litigation nation-wide challenging inquiries
about mental health on licensing applications for lawyers, doctors, nurses, and other
professionals.
R. SCOTT HITT, M.D.; Los Angeles, California
Dr. Hitt practices with Pacific Oaks Medical Group, one of the country's largest and most
aggressive private practice health care providers for patients with HIV disease. He was also
just appointed as the Chair of the President's HIV/AIDS Advisory Council.
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LAURIE POWERS, Ph.D.; Hanover, New Hampshire
Dr. Powers is Associate Director of the Hood Center for Family Support at Dartmouth
Medical School and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. For the last
ten years she has conducted national research, model demonstrations, and training activities in
partnership with schools, youth, families and business. Her work focuses on promoting self-
determination and empowerment, transitions to independent living and employment, and
building collaborative partnerships between people with disabilities, employers, families, and
professionals. She has a neurological disorder and uses a walker.
RUDD TURNBULL; Lawrence, Kansas
Mr. Turnbull is Co-Director of the Beach Center on Families and Disability, Professor of
Special Education and Courtesy Professor of Law at the University of Kansas. He is the
father of a 27-year old man with mental retardation and autism.
PAT YATES; Little Rock, Arkansas
Pat Yates is currently a special education teacher at Hall High School in Little Rock,
Arkansas, where she has taught a self-contained class of moderate to severely disabled
children for four years. She teaches a community-based instruction program, so that the kids
get out into the community in order to learn functional skills; for example, they go to the
grocery store to learn about groceries and shopping or to a vocational setting to learn job
skills. Prior to this, she was a case manager and advocate for people of all ages with
disabilities.