Day in Washington- The Disability Policy Podcast explores and discusses various aspects of disability policy. Each episode will cover a specific issue within disability, and/or a disability-related news article. These 8-10 minute podcasts offer an easy to understand introduction to disability policy and resources for those interested in further study. You can find the text of each podcast in the comments.  If you have difficulty downloading the podcast, please right-click and save it to your computer for playback.

Note:  Due to the fact that much of the audio is taken from a webcast, please note that there may be inconsistencies in the audio quality.

Episode Summary:

This week's podcast covers the Senate Health, Education and Labor Committee's hearing on ADA Restoration. Within this podcast are snippets of audio from the hearing. My apologies for the late posting but I wanted to post this with a transcript.

Audio File:  Day in Washington Podcast #14(b) - ADA Restoration Senate Hearing

Show Notes

- Introduction, Date of Podcast

- Introduction to the ADA Restoration Senate Hearing (Senator Harkin)

- Senator Harkin (again)

- John Kemp

- Dick Thornburg

- Camille Olson

- Senator Murray

- Chai Feldblum

- Closing and Contact information

- Disclaimer

Resources

ADA Restoration Hearing on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Website

Video Webcast of November 15, 2007 ADA Restoration Act Hearing

Please note that the video is not captioned.

Day in Washington Podcast #11 - ADA Restoration House Hearing

Day in Washington Podcast #5 - ADA Restoration

American Association of People with Disabilities ADA Restoration Blog

Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities ADA Restoration Page - Includes Written Testimony of Additional Supporters