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Amputee, lost his left arm in American Civil War [citation needed] Brian Mast: Republican: Florida: U.S. Representative: Lost both his legs and one of his fingers when he stepped on an IED in Kandahar [37] [38] John McCain: Republican: Arizona: U.S. Senator: Limited use of arms and "off-kilter gait" due to torture as a prisoner of war during ...
American politicians with a disability. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American politicians . It includes politicians that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
It includes politicians that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
Also called the Blue Dog Democrats or simply the Blue Dogs. A caucus in the United States House of Representatives comprising members of the Democratic Party who identify as centrists or conservatives and profess an independence from the leadership of both major parties. The caucus is the modern development of a more informal grouping of relatively conservative Democrats in U.S. Congress ...
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The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 or ADA (42 U.S.C. § 12101) is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability. It affords similar protections against discrimination to Americans with disabilities as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 , [ 1 ] which made discrimination based on race , religion , sex , national origin ...
As a result, more than 4 million Americans, about 2% of the voting-age population, remain ineligible to vote even after completing their prison terms, said the Sentencing Project, a nonprofit ...
People with disabilities in the United States are a significant minority group, making up a fifth of the overall population and over half of Americans older than eighty. [1] [2] There is a complex history underlying the U.S. and its relationship with its disabled population, with great progress being made in the last century to improve the livelihood of disabled citizens through legislation ...