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Dan Burton: I have here in my hand probably 6 to 10 examples in various States where the legal services Corporations have…

On the recordSeptember 25, 1997
I have here in my hand probably 6 to 10 examples in various States where the legal services Corporations have deliberately violated the laws passed by the Congress and signed into law by the President in April 1996. Now, the reason I wanted to just have this brief colloquy with the gentleman is that we need to put some kind of a mechanism in place that will penalize those legal services Corporations that are using taxpayers' dollars and then violating not just the intent of Congress, but the law passed by Congress.
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Dan Burton
Indiana

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Discussing violations by legal services corporations of laws enacted in 1996.

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