"In 2017, the cavalry doesn't ride on horses. It rides on wheelchairs."

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NationalADAPT‏ @NationalADAPT 12m12 minutes ago

Over 200 disabled people got up at 4:30 to be here for this life and death hearing and only 7 are allowed in. #ADAPTandRESIST

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Kati Mcfarland 🌙♿️‏ @katiwithoutthee 19m19 minutes ago
Pano of @CapitolPolice blocking @NationalADAPT from #GrahamCassidy – at Dirksen Senate Building




Colleen Flanagan‏ @ColleenFlangan
One of the first in line for expected #GrahamCassidy hearing because Medicaid matters! #ADAPTandRESIST

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1. These people are heroes to me!!!!!

The GOP steals from the poor and gives to the rich. They are the REALLY sick people....cruel sociopaths!

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2. Paid lobbyists taking place of people in wheelchairs waiting since 6 AM#ADAPTandRESIST Only limited

space in the small hearing room. shame on Sen. Johnson

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4. anywhere else

...200 people first in line are first admitted, first served.

In the republican run hearing, folks in wheelchairs are treated like second-class citizens, denied their rightful place in this hearing because of their disabilities.

This is a violation of the law.

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