Disability Rights Education & Defense INC

Nonprofit Disability Rights Law and Policy Center

Based in CA

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AI Overview

With $170K in lobbying spend across 31 quarterly filings, Disability Rights Education & Defense INC is an active lobbying client. Their lobbying covers 26 issue areas. Active from 2018 to 2025.

$170K

Total Spend

Years Active

Firms Hired

Lobbyists Deployed

Issues Lobbied

Spending Trend

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Year	Lobbying Spend
2018	$10K
2019	$10K
2020	$20K
2021	$10K
2022	$0
2023	$30K
2024	$40K
2025	$50K

Lobbying Firms

Disability Rights Education & Defense, INC.

Lobbyists

Susan Henderson Carol Tyson Silvia Yee

What They Lobby About

These are actual descriptions from their quarterly lobbying disclosure filings, summarizing what they lobbied Congress and federal agencies about.Issue areas: Budget/Appropriations, Civil Rights, Education, Health Issues, Immigration and 21 more

•Allocation of funding for the Empower Act / Money Follows the Person

•Opposition to HR 620 - ADA Education and Reform Act
•Enforcement of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) provisions regarding significant disproportionality in the identification, pl

•Higher Education Act - Reauthorization
•PROSPER Act - support for accessible instructional materials

•Support for HR 5912 - To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to delay the reduction in Federal medical assistance percentage for Medicaid personal care services and home health services furnish

•Support introduction of the DREAM Act in the House of Representatives (Letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan)
•Opposition to the practice of separating families entering the US on the southern border.