Tell Your Legislators: Protect Medicaid!
Table of Contents Words to Know Budget Reconciliation– A way for Congress to pass some kinds of bills about funding faster. Budget Resolution– A plan…
April 14, 2025
Issue
HHS Restructuring Harms People With Disabilities
People with disabilities are under attack. Musk’s DOGE and RFK Jr. are breaking up the Administration of Community Living (ACL) which supports and administers programs…
March 31, 2025
ASAN Condemns Trump’s Executive Order on the Department of Education
On March 20th, the Trump administration released an executive order calling on the Secretary of Education to take steps to close the Department of Education….
March 20, 2025
UPDATED–Tell Your Legislators: Protect Medicaid!
Words to Know Budget Reconciliation– A way for Congress to pass some kinds of bills about funding faster. Budget Resolution– A plan for how Congress…
February 19, 2025
Action Alert: Call-In Days To #StopTheShock
On June 11th, section 722 of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act passed at the subcommittee level. If…
June 25, 2024
Action Alert: Call Now to #StopTheShock!
Last week, we wrote to you about a bill that was being voted on in a subcommittee of the House of Representatives. The bill is…
June 18, 2024
Action Alert: URGENT #StopTheShock Phone Action — Call Now!
UPDATE: Yesterday (June 11th), the House Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies subcommittee passed a draft bill. If this bill becomes…
June 11, 2024
Join Us for a Webinar: #StopTheShock 2024 Public Comments
For years, ASAN and our allies have been working to stop the electric skin shock torture being used on some residents of the Judge Rotenberg…
March 29, 2024
Take Action to #StopTheShock!
For years, ASAN and our allies have been working to stop the electric skin shock torture being used on some residents of the Judge Rotenberg…
March 26, 2024
ASAN Comments on HHS Proposed Updates to Section 504
These comments are available as a PDF here. Medical Treatment Medical Treatment Question 1: We recognize that the line between disabilities may in some cases…
November 14, 2023
A Letter Urging the Reissue of the FDA’s Ban on Electrical Stimulation Devices
These comments are available as a PDF here. Dear Secretary Becerra, Commissioner Califf, and General Counsel Bagenstos We the undersigned write to urge the Federal…
May 4, 2023
ASAN Statement on the Guardianship Bill of Rights Act
ASAN applauds the recently introduced Guardianship Bill of Rights Act. The Act would protect important civil rights, make guardianship rarer and less restrictive, and establish…
April 11, 2023