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TOM HARKIN
IOWA

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United States Senate
WASHINGTON, DC 20510-1502
5/16/01

To Members of ADAPT,
I'm sorry that I'm not able to be with you in person today, but I did want to share a few thoughts...at least by letter.

Over the past few years, we've won some pretty big battles together on the ADA, IDEA, and many others. But as a writer from my home state of Iowa once noted, "The greatest danger is to rest when a battle has been won, but the war is not over."

Well, our war is far from over, and it's getting tougher every day. As many of you know, this past week, we've seen some pretty awful amendments to IDEA — amendments that would turn the clock way back on our children with disabilities. I've been fighting hard to make sure that these don't pass.

But rather than look back, I'm ready to look to the future. And I hope you are, too, In the next three weeks, I will be re-introducing IvliCASSA, because there is nothing that will stop me from leading the fight against the continued segregation of people with disabilities. Working together, we're going to pass MiCASSA because it's good policy, it's good economics, and it's unconscionable that people with disabilities are denied the basic freedom to live in their own communities.

So I look forward to continuing to work with all of you toward a day when there is finally a level playing field for people with disabilities. Keep up your outstanding work and, whatever you do, continue to fight the good fight.

Your Friend,
[signed] Tom Harkin
[typed] Tom Harkin

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