#CripTheVote Chat
Disability Legislation In Congress
With Guest Host Rebecca Vallas, The Century Foundation
Sunday, July 25, 2020
7:00 PM Eastern / 6 PM Central / 5 PM Mountain / 4 PM Pacific
The co-partners of #CripTheVote, Alice Wong, Andrew Pulrang, and Gregg Beratan, invite you to a Twitter chat about current disability-related legislation in Congress, and what disabled people and disability activists can do to make sure our priorities get the attention they deserve. Our co-host is Rebecca Vallas @rebeccavallas, Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation.
How to Participate
Follow @GreggBeratan @AndrewPulrang @DisVisibility. When it’s time for the chat, search #CripTheVote on Twitter for the series of live tweets under the ‘Latest’ tab for the full conversation.
If you don’t use Twitter, you can follow along in real time here: http://twubs.com/CripTheVote
If you might be overwhelmed by the amount of tweets and only want to see the chat’s questions so you can respond to them, check @DisVisibility’s account. The questions will be Tweeted approximately 6-8 minutes apart.
Another way to participate in the chat is to use this app that allows you to pause the chat if the Tweets are coming at you too fast: http://www.tchat.io/
Here is a link for people who are new to Twitter on starting an account and how to use it: https://help.twitter.com/en/new-user-faq
Here’s an article about how to participate in a Twitter chat: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/how-to-participate-in-a-twitter-chat/546805/
Check out this captioned ASL explanation of how to participate in a chat by @behearddc https://www.facebook.com/HEARDDC/videos/1181213075257528/
Links to background information
Rebecca Cokley, Yahoo! Finance - July 13, 2021
Chelsea Cirruzzo, US News & World Report - July 6, 2021
The Democratic plan to smash poverty for seniors and people with disabilities
Dylan Matthews, Vox.com - July 9, 2021
“Building Back Better” Must Include Strengthening Supplemental Security Income
Rebecca Vallas, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation - April 27, 2021
Letter from Sen. Sherrod Brown on updating SSI
April 16, 2021
Chat Questions
Q1: What are the most likely prospects in Congress for major progress on home care / Home and Community Based Services (HCBS)? #CripTheVote
Q2: What should disability activists make of the recent infrastructure bill bipartisan compromise that appears to leave out HCBS? #CripTheVote
Q3: What is “budget reconciliation” and how does it work? What can it be used to accomplish in Congress, and what can’t it be used for? #CripTheVote
Q4: What opportunities are there in Congress for major progress on Social Security and SSI? #CripTheVote
Q5: What are the prospects in Congress for major progress on disability employment policy? #CripTheVote
Q6: How much support is there for disability policy reforms with U.S. voters? #CripTheVote
Q7: What are some effective ways for disabled people to use their personal stories to raise disability issues and promote or oppose disability-related legislation? #CripTheVote
Q8: Are there disability advocacy strategies that are less effective and maybe should be reassessed? #CripTheVote
Q9: Which disability advocacy strategies are most effective for supporting disability-related legislation? #CripTheVote
This concludes our #CripTheVote chat on disability legislation in Congress. Thanks again to Rebecca Vallas for helping guide our discussion. #CripTheVote
Please keep the conversation going. A recap of this chat will be up shortly. For more: http://cripthevote.blogspot.com/ #CripTheVote
