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In a rare show of bipartisan support, a group of senators said they want the United States to ratify an international convention on the rights of people with disabilities. The U.S. already signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2009, but approval from the U.S. Senate is needed to make the move official. President Barack Obama transmitted the treaty to the Senate earlier this month and asked the body to ratify it. Now, a group of seven senators representing both political parties is voicing support for the treaty as well. “All people deserve to be granted full and equal basic human rights, regardless of their physical or mental capabilities. I strongly support ratification of this critical treaty, and urge my colleagues to do the same,” said Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del. The treaty calls for greater community access and a better standard of living for the estimated 650 million people around the world with disabilities. In addition to Coons, other lawmakers coming out in support of the convention include Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa; Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan.; Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo.; and Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M. Currently, 153 countries have signed the disability treaty and 112 have ratified it, according to the U.N.

More than a year after the federal government replaced “mental retardation” with “intellectual disability” in many laws, officials are looking to shift away from other terms also deemed offensive to those with disabilities. Under a bill proposed last month, two U.S. senators want to remove the word “lunatic” from federal law. The term, which originates from Latin and first referred to a type of insanity spurred by changes in the moon, is now considered derogatory by those with mental illness and other disabilities. Much like the 2010 passage of Rosa’s Law replaced “mental retardation” with “intellectual disability” without changing the meaning or intent of any laws, Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, and Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., say their 21st Century Language Act is simply an effort to reflect more modern terminology. “The continued use of this pejorative term has no place in the U.S. Code,” Conrad said on the Senate floor, reports BBC News Magazine. “‘Lunatic’ is an unnecessary term and… its removal will have no impact on the broader federal law.” To read more click here.

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Empirically, Legislations for People with Disabilities Pass Unanimously Through Congress

Robert Pear ’08 (Reporter for New York Times) “Congress Passes Bill With Protections for Disabled” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/washington/18rights.html?_r=1

Congress gave final approval on Wednesday to a major civil rights bill, expanding protections for people with disabilities and overturning several recent Supreme Court decisions. The voice vote in the House, following Senate passage by unanimous consent last week, clears the bill for President Bush. The White House said Mr. Bush would sign the bill, just as his father signed the original Americans With Disabilities Act in 1990.

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Diament, 2010 (Michelle, Co-founder of DisabilityScoop.com – a leading news source for disability issues, “Poll Shows Public Support For Community Living”, April 28, http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2010/04/28/poll-community-living-act/7854/)

A Harris Interactive poll released Wednesday indicates that a majority of Americans support legislation that would allow people with disabilities to choose community-based care over nursing homes. The poll commissioned by the self-advocacy group ADAPT and the Coalition for Community Integration, gauged opinions on the Community Choice Act, a bill proposed in Congress that would mandate that states offer people with disabilities the option to use Medicaid funding to pay for community-based rather than institutional care. Findings from the poll indicate that 66 percent of Americans support the legislation without knowing what it would cost. When informed that the measure would likely add no more than $6 to a middle class taxpayer’s bill, 89 percent of respondents were supportive. Just 8 percent of those polled said they would not support the Community Choice Act. Cost estimates for the measure range between $1.44 billion and $3.81 billion annually, according to a 2007 study published in the Journal of Aging & Social Policy. Organizers of the poll used these figures along with the average tax paid by middle income Americans as compared to the federal budget to determine that the proposed law would likely add $2.40 to $6.35 to the average taxpayer’s bill in 2010 dollars. The poll was conducted in April after health care reform was signed into law. Initially, advocates had hoped the Community Choice Act would be included in the health care reform legislation. But while the new law does give states an incentive to offer people the opportunity to live in the community, it falls short of the mandate in the Community Choice Act. Under health care reform, a provision known as the Community First Choice Option allows states to receive increased federal matching funds if they agree to eliminate caps on the number of individuals who can live in the community. Disability advocates say the option is a step in the right direction, but the mandate in the Community Choice Act is needed to ensure that the civil rights of individuals in all states are met.

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Percy, 2001 (Stephen, Ph.D., Indiana University A.B., Hamilton College, Political Science Professor at the University of Milwaukee, “Disability and Federalism: Comparing Different Approaches to Full Participation”, http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=q5F8Oqks7oUC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=Disability+and+Federalism:+Comparing+Different+Approaches+to+Full+Participation&ots=vhr2r60Sh2&sig=yknyDwNkcNyX66RQv7Zyl-ahnNQ#v=onepage&q&f=true,256-257)

Another explanation of state government acceptance of national gov-¶ ernment authority as articulated in the ADA is that states had themselves already¶ moved by the 1980s to create disability rights policies. Some states had laws¶ that surpassed the national government’s pre-ADA laws and policies in terms¶ of coverage and scope. The policy provisions of the ADA were often consis-¶ tent with elements of laws in most states allowing states to see the ADA not so¶ much as a rival but as a companion to state laws.¶ A final explanation of state acquiescence to national government power¶ in the context of the ADA concerns the depth of public recognition of dis-¶ crimination and growing public sentiments for strong protections. During the¶ two decades preceding the ADA. Americans not only witnessed greatly¶ expanded civil rights protections for many groupings of Americans but also¶ began to learn about the plight of people with disabilities, the limiting impact¶ of policies and design features. and the potential contributions that people with¶ disabilities can make to American life. These recognitions generated political¶ support for the ADA. support that was nationally, not regionally or state, based.¶ Civil rights protections designed and enforced by the national government were¶ therefore consistent with popular conceptions of how civil rights are to be de-¶ fined and enforced within the overall federal system of the US

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