EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY FOR
THE HANDICAPPED ACT OF 1979

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HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON

LABOR AND HUMAN RESOURCES. (
UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-SIXTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

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TO AMEND TITLE VII OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 TO
PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION AGAINST INDIVIDUALS BECAUSE
THEY ARE HANDICAPPED, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

JUNE 20 AND 21, 1979

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CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1979

Bowe, Dr. Frank G., director, American Coalition of Citizens With Dis-

abilities...

Leach, Daniel E., vice chairman, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commis-

sion....

Mitchell, Clarence, chairman, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, accompa-

nied by a panel consisting of Durward K. McDaniel, national representative,

American Council of the Blind; Charles Hodge, attorney, and member of the

American Council of the Blind, Virginia; William T. Snyder, executive

director, Affiliated Leadership League of and for the Blind of America; and

Donna Eckert, representing Reese Robrahn, in behalf of the interests of the

American Council of the Blind and the American Coalition of Citizens With

Disabilities

Drach, Ronald, national employment director, Disabled American Veterans; B.

Richmond Dudley, Jr., assistant advocacy director for employment, Paralyzed

Veterans of America; and John Fales, employment director, Blinded Veter-

ans' Assocation, a panel........

DuBow, Sy, legal director, National Center for Law and the Deaf.

THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1979

Rougeau, Weldon, director, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs,

U.S. Department of Labor; Wilbert Cheatham, Deputy Director, Office of

Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, accompa-

nied by John Wodatch, HEW Office for Civil Rights.......

Russell, Harold, chairman, President's Committee on Employment of the

Handicapped, accompanied by Bernard Posner, executive director

Braithwaite, David W., chairman, Equal Employment Opportunity Subcommit-

tee, National Association of Manufacturers, and director of corporate employ-

ment, United States Steel Corp., accompanied by Robert Z. Bohan, director of

labor relations, NAM

Weicker, Lowell P., Jr., a U.S. Senator from the State of Connecticut.

Milk, Leslie, executive director, Mainstream, Inc., and John D. Kemp, presi-

dent, Kemp & Young, Inc., Mission, Kans., a panel..

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STATEMENTS

Affiliated Leadership League of and for the Blind of America, William T.
Snyder, executive director, prepared statement

American Council of the Blind, Durward K. McDaniel, national representative,

prepared statement....

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations,

Kenneth Young, director, Department of legislation

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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Roger P. Kingsley, Ph. D.,

director, Federal Affairs Office.

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Assembly Committee on Finance, Insurance, and Commerce, California Legis-

lature, Alister McAlister, chairman

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Associated General Contractors of America, the.

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Bowe, Dr. Frank G., director, American Coalition of Citizens With Dis-

abilities...

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