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- ADAPT (1023)
Photos only Left photo is of George Wolf lying face up on his back in a yellow ADAPT shirt and black ADAPT cap. He is handcuffed to the front bumper of a yellow scooter. The right photo is of a hand of a person dressed in black with a very large bolt cutter in his or her hand. - ADAPT (1024)
Newt Gingrich Agreement with ADAPT retyped for readability) Our Goal: To pass a bill (and get it signed into law) which will create choice so people with disabilities can get attendant services instead of being forced into Nursing home care. Our goal is to create incentives so States will otter personal choices to individuals and to do so without substantially increasing the total coat to the taxpayers. Our goal is to pass this into law as early as possible in 1997. To achieve this we will: Establish a National ADAPT legislative committee of 5 persons to work directly with the Speakers office in Washington; Establish a Georgia ADAPT legislative committee of 5 persons to work directly with the Speakers Georgia office; The Speaker will assign Ed Kutler in Washington and Nancy Desmond to coordinate the development and passage of this legislation; We will hold an initial legislative planning session before Thanksgiving; We will introduce the bill in January; We will request hearings in February and March; We will seek support beginning in the November, 1996 meeting; We will involve the Governor’: Association, the Congressional Budget Office, the appropriate House and Senate Committees and the Senate leadership in the November, 1996 meeting; We will seek final passage and enactment into law prior to the end of the first session of the 105th Congress. . Signed by Newt Gingrich Mike Auberger - ADAPT (1025)
Photo only Newt Gingrich standing at a table in meeting with ADAPT members. Two people in wheelchairs are to his right. - ADAPT (997)
The Atlanta Constitution, Local News Wednesday, Nov. 6 1996 c5 Disabled block DeKalb demand in-home care by Michael Weiss, Staff Writer Fresh off a pair of protests that led to promises from President Clinton and U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, about 100 members of a disabled advocacy group spent part of Election Day sitting in the street," blocking evening traffic at a busy DeKalb County intersection. Members of Americans with Disabilities for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT), in town for a five-day conference on disabilities and human rights, first arrived at the corner of Memorial Drive and Covington Highway about 3:30 p.m., DeKalb police said. They were still in the street when the polls closed at 7 p.m., police said. The sit-in was ADAPT’s third protest in three days. On Monday, police broke up a 500-person sit-in at Clinton's Georgia campaign headquarters downtown, arresting 86 demonstrators and charging them with trespassing. They were released later Monday. Demonstrators were calling for the president to support programs that would provide in-home care for people with disabilities instead of forcing them into nursing homes. After he was notified by telephone of the protest, Clinton promised that, if re-elected, he would meet with representatives of ADAPT next year to discuss the issue, said ADAPT spokesman Mark Johnson. “Maybe he’s finally going to make good on his 4-year-old promise," said Johnson, of Atlanta. “We sure hope this isn't more political rhetoric.” On Sunday, ADAPT members paraded into Centennial Olympic Park to demand better funding for in-home care. Thirty of the protesters met that day with Gingrich (R-Ga.), who pledged to introduce legislation that would guarantee home-and-community-based services.