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30 Disability Rights Protesters Arrested on Capitol Hill

HeadlineSep 20, 2005

In other news from Capitol Hill, at least 30 activists associated with the national disability rights group ADAPT were arrested Monday for refusing to leave House and Senate offices. They were protesting Congressional plans to slow the growth of Medicaid spending by $10 billion over the next five years. On Sunday about 100 protesters–most of them in wheelchairs–rallied outside Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s Washington home.

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