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		<title>President signs technology access measure</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From AP on MSNBC, with video; the Digital Journal; Wireless Week; American Foundation for the Blind release in the Kansas City Star: President Obama has signed legislation that requires smart phones, television programs and other modern communications technologies to be made accessible to people who have impaired vision or hearing. The legislation was hailed as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama honors girl who inspired &#8216;Rosa&#8217;s law&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama celebrated the signing of &#8220;Rosa&#8217;s Law&#8221; at an East Room ceremony honoring of 9-year-old Rosa Marcellino, the Maryland girl with Down syndrome who was its inspiration. The law ends the use of the terms &#8220;mental retardation&#8221; and &#8220;mentally retarded&#8221; in federal health, education and labor laws. &#8220;It&#8217;s so inspiring to have her here,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President signs &#8216;Rosa&#8217;s law&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/10/07/president-signs-rosas-law-30157/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strikes term &#8216;mentally retarded&#8217; from federal statutes Chicago Sun-Times, Southern Maryland Online The measure will eliminate the terms &#8220;mental retardation&#8221; and &#8220;mentally retarded&#8221; from federal education, health and labor laws. &#8220;This law takes â€˜mentally retarded&#8217; out of the federal law books and replaces it with â€˜intellectual disability,&#8217; a change that will have a positive effect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Our homes, not nursing homes,&#8217; disability activists tell Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/08/10/our-homes-not-nursing-homes-disability-activists-tell-obama-29970/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Austin American Statesman and the paper&#8217;s Postcards blog: Disability activists were among the crowd that turned out to greet the President in Texas Monday, shouting protests about an unfulfilled campaign promise to ensure home-based support programs. &#8220;Our homes, not nursing homes,&#8221; they chanted, waving a banner from a curbside perch along the route [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EEOC: Less than 1 percent of federal workers have disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/07/29/eeoc-federal-employees-report-29908/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[EEOC press release, Washington Post, Federal Times: A report released this week by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) found that people with targeted disabilities still comprise less than one percent (0.88 percent) of the total federal work force. Targeted disabilities include deafness, blindness, missing extremities, partial or complete paralysis, convulsive disorders, mental retardation, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama signs order to increase federal disability hiring</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/07/26/obama-executive-orde-29898/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From CNN: Marking the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, President Obama today signed an executive order to increase government hiring of people with disabilities. &#8220;Not dependence but independence: That&#8217;s what the ADA was all about,&#8221; Obama said at a White House reception attended by several hundred guests, including Cabinet members, legislators and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DOJ seeks improved Internet access for people with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/07/24/internet-access-29846/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Reuters: The U.S. Department of Justice this week issued proposals aimed at enhancing access for people with disabilities to commercial and government websites, Internet emergency call centers, and entertainment programming in movie theaters. The proposals, which are primarily aimed at improving access for people with vision and hearing impairments,  are expected to draw criticism [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feds sue Arkansas over segregation of people with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/05/07/feds-sue-arkansas-over-segregation-of-those-with-disabilities-29552/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 04:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Arkansas Democrat Gazette (registration required), Google/AP: The federal Department of Justice has filed suit against the state of Arkansas for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act, alleging that the state illegally segregates hundreds of people with developmental disabilities. The lawsuit accused Arkansas of a &#8220;systemic failure&#8221; that places people with disabilities in large [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advocates urge &#8216;disability rights champion&#8217; on high court</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/04/29/disability-rights-champion-court-29405/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law is calling on President Obama to name a Supreme Court nominee who will uphold the rights of people with disabilities. From the center&#8217;s website: Despite Congress&#8217;s bipartisan passage in 2008 of the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA) to restore the law&#8217;s broad reach after years of hostile court rulings, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insurance industry backs off on pre-existing condition coverage</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/03/30/insurance-industry-pre-existing-condition-coverage-28975/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/03/30/insurance-industry-pre-existing-condition-coverage-28975/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From CBS News: In a letter released yesterday, the insurance industry&#8217;s top lobbyist said the industry will not fight a provision in the new health care law that guarantees coverage to children with pre-existing medical conditions. The Obama administration had promised that the coverage would start later this year. Earlier press reports, including this one [...]]]></description>
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