David Skaggs: “Mr. Chairman, I am still just confounded by what practical difference the gentleman believes his amendment will make. If…”

“Mr. Chairman, I am still just confounded by what practical difference the gentleman believes his amendment will make. If we are talking about oversight, we already have a requirement and generally administrative practice on the part of Legal Services Corp. grantees to track the kinds of cases that they are involved in. The gentleman's amendment takes that a step further. That gives names and addresses of plaintiffs and defendants, as well as other case file information which is public information, if we want to go to the court and dig it out, as the gentleman knows. But to require the expenditure of additional time and resources to an already strapped program in order to pull this information together, which will add nothing to our oversight capabilities, but will make susceptible to invasions of privacy inappropriate efforts by any number of likely people who want to exploit this kind of address list, I really do not understand what the gentleman believes he is going to accomplish by this, other than further burdening the people that are trying to provide legal services.”