group would split up further into teams of four or five to visit all of the congress members on a particular floor.

After leaving the hotel, my group marched up Capitol Hill past the House Office buildings, the Library of Congress, the Supreme Court and the Capitol to the Hart Senate Office Building.

The object of the visits today is to deliver MiCASSA materials to all the Congress members, their offices and staff. MiCASSA, the Community Choice Act, has a long history that goes back before me. I was at the action in Atlanta Georgia in 1996 when Newt Gingrich said he would introduce the bill in the next legislative session.

Back when it was introduced, the legislation was called CASA; it has gone through some changes that have made it a much better bill without being watered-down by compromise. MiCASSA is basically the same concept as when it was introduced nearly ten years ago. MiCASSA will be re-introduced in the 2007 legislative session and it will have its strongest support ever. This year it has a streamlined name: MiCASSA - The Community Choice Act, to better describe the main advantage of the bill.

The teams delivered copies of the legislation, a press release and the transcript of the Day of Testimony. Six months ago in Nashville, to kick-off our ADAPT action there, people who had lived in nursing homes gave public testimony about their experience living in an institution corn-pared with living in the community. The personal narratives are a compelling argument for MiCASSA.

In the evening of the final day, ADAPT celebrates together. This action in particular was one to observe. From the dual hit on Housing Authorities, to the reverberating walls of the Hilton lobby, to the back-to-back success with HUD and the RNC and finally, to the accomplishments of today, this has been a success.

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