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Steny Hoyer: “We've seen [the ADA] strengthened through legislation like…”

Featuring: Steny Hoyer, Democratic | U.S. House Maryland, 5th Congressional District

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Hoyer: We Cannot Turn the Clock Back to the Time Before the ADA

Published | Video Starts at 00:58

It did so not only for physical access to public and private space on public accommodations, but also in ensuring reasonable accommodations in workplaces and non discriminant discrimination in every facet of American life. And We've seen [the ADA] strengthened through legislation like the ADA Amendments Act in 2008 and through the courts with decisions like Olmstead versus LC in 1999. That decision concerned the ADA's non discrimination rule and applied it to the forced segregation of disabled people away from their communities. (00:58–01:10)

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Asserts that the ADA was strengthened by the ADA Amendments Act in 2008 and the Olmstead decision in 1999.

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