Americans with Disabilities Act Introduction Overcoming the ADA Lie MYTH: Presidents Reagan and George Bush Sr. were against the ADA did not care about people with disabilities! President Bush Sr. was forced to sign the ADA! MYTH: Republicans didn’t support the ADA! It was a Democrat bill! MYTH: President George W. Bush does not support the ADA! President Bush and the Republicans want to repeal it! Introduction: It was the passage of this law, Americans with Disabilities Act (the “ADA”),