Dan Burton: “Let me read to my colleagues what a Legal Services grantee in California said about the new restrictions. He said, ``If…”

“Let me read to my colleagues what a Legal Services grantee in California said about the new restrictions. He said, ``If Congress can screw people with technicalities, we can unscrew them with technicalities. That is why we are lawyers and not social workers. Two can play this game.'' Now, Congress prohibited Legal Services Corporation from doing certain things. Legal Services grantees are getting around these restrictions by forming new shell organizations to accept Federal grants so that the original groups can continue to pursue their liberal agenda with private funds. For example, the Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center and the Legal Aid Society of Santa Clara, in many cases the two organizations have the same board of directors, many of the same lawyers, and they share office space. They are two separate organizations in name only. They are just getting around the restrictions so they can do whatever they damn well please.”