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Dan Burton: What I am saying is where there is a violation of Legal Services and we know about it, there ought to be a penalty…

On the recordSeptember 25, 1997
What I am saying is where there is a violation of Legal Services and we know about it, there ought to be a penalty imposed upon those agencies that are violating the law. Now, if we did that, we would find a lot of people that might take a little different approach to Legal Services, because these legal service organizations that have involved themselves in defending drug dealers and people who are deliberately breaking the law, if we did that, I think we could work together.
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Dan Burton
Indiana

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Discussing penalties for agencies violating Legal Services regulations.

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