SOS: Take Immediate Action on HR 620

I know there’s a lot going on in our world right now. Please take a moment to help us disabled Americans, though.

HR 620 is being discussed today. This bill severely limits the civil rights of disabled peeps highlighting violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

The following is what I faxed to my House rep using Resistbot. You can do this too by texting RESIST to 504-09:

Please oppose HR 620.

As a disabled person, my rights depend on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. HR 620 would severely weaken the ADA, which already is under-enforced.

In addition to limiting our civil rights, it is a classist bill in nature. Requiring specific ADA sections to be referenced requires people to have an intimate knowledge of the ADA, which is not always possible. Regardless, why do disabled people have to continually prove barriers we face?

Please protect my rights, the rights of over a million disabled Wisconsinites, and approximately 57 million disabled Americans.

You can find your House reps here if you don’t already know who they are.

This is especially important to do if your representative(s) are one of the following current co-sponsors:

Alabama
- Terri A. Sewell
- Martha Roby
Arizona
- Kyrsten Sinema
California
- Scott Peters
- Ken Calvert
- Ami Bera
- Jackie Speier
- Peter Aguilar
- Luis J. Correa
- Jeff Denham
- Darrell E. Issa
- Jim Costa
Colorado
- Mike Coffman
Georgia
- Doug Collins
Illinois
- Bill Foster
- Bobby L. Rush
Louisiana
- Ralph Lee Abraham
Michigan
- Paul Mitchell
Minnesota
- Tom Emmer
Oklahoma
- Steve Russell
Texas
- Michael K. Conaway
- Henry Cuellar
- Lamar Smith