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I also wanted to acknowledge ms. Newhouse whos in the audience from silver spring, maryland. Attended my alma mater. Shes also a bilateral and beauty and wears prosthetic legs. Shes traveled to over 40 countries for work and study abroad for individuals with disability. Nice to have you here. Mr. Chairman, i guess to general thornburgh, or to secretary ridge, ill give you the chance to respond to this. We all acknowledge that the treaty is based upon basically the u. S. Law, the ada. We passed that in 1990. I remember in 1991, congressman hoyer who was then chairman of u. S. Helsinki commission traveled to moscow and became part of the moscow declaration document, which started the International Effort to use u. S. Law as the model to protect universal university the rights of people with disabilities. So the United States has been leadership. The point i would raise, that failed to ratify i think compromises the u. S. Ability to advance these standards globally. It weakens our own cre

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