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A new Senate bill has provisions to help amputees and people with other disabilities start their own businesses—just in time ...

The American With Disabilities Act Mediation Program hasn’t issued a quarterly report since 2011. Could better leadership heighten its impact? ...

A new Senate bill would require the Federal Aviation Administration to ensure that people with disabilities can safely evacuate an ...

US Senator Tammy Duckworth, a frequent flier and bilateral amputee, introduced a new bill to impose greater accountability on commercial ...

A group of lawmakers led by U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth directed the GAO to initiate a comprehensive study into the ...

The GAO has accepted a bipartisan Congressional request to investigate the cost and accessibility of prosthetic devices, along with amputees' ...

Lots of amputees made a big impact in 2021, but these five went above and beyond in making a positive ...

It wasn’t easy, but Congress finally passed the much-debated bipartisan infrastructure bill last week. As we noted two months ago, ...

Tammy Duckworth, one of the Senate's strongest advocates for disability rights and the only amputee currently serving in the chamber, ...

The bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed the Senate yesterday contains some distinct policy wins for amputees and other people with ...

Tammy Duckworth's Triple A Study Act could help tear down barriers to prosthetic care. But even with strong bipartisan support, ...

While you're advocating for the amputee community during Limb Loss Awareness Month, reward yourself with one of these new or ...

Only five? Thousands of amputees went above and beyond in 2020, but we’ve settled on a handful of figures whose ...

In 2004, when US Army Captain Tammy Duckworth, now a senator from Illinois, woke up at Walter Reed Army Medical ...

It's a busy week over at the Amputee Coalition. Two big pieces of news have come out, and both require ...

By Emily Dings The amputee community has had reason to feel optimistic in the months following the November 2018 midterm ...