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Mr. Chairman, the purpose of my amendment is to require programs funded by the Legal Services Corporation to disclose to the public and the LSC the most basic information about litigation in which LSC grantees are involved. The information…
We want to make sure. We want to make sure we are covering the waterfront so that there is no problem and they are not covering up something.
The bottom line is this. Many of us feel like we are spending $283 million and that is excessive. We want to help the indigent, everybody does, but we believe there should be more accountability. Even though Congress passed, a couple of…
This information, if you really want to get it, you can go to the court records, a cumbersome thing, and it takes a lot of time to dig through records that you do not want to go through, or you can go to the national LSC and get it. What I…
The only way we can get the information is to dig through court records or go to the national LSC, and we say we want to go to the local LSC. Now, actually, we are asking for more information than what the gentleman wants us to have, but…
First of all, I do not think there will be any additional expenses. The records are already there.
the bottom line is that more detailed information gives us more of an oversight of the actual operation of the local LSC that may be in violation of the current statutes that we pass here in the Congress, and we know those exist.
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…
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…
In February 1997 the Legal Aid Society of Mercer County tried to win unemployment benefits for a man who lost his job because he was in jail. The man in question worked as a housekeeper at the Mercer Medical Center until he was arrested…
it is inconceivable to me we would increase the amount of the money going to Legal Services Corporation by $109 million. We were talking about $141 million. You wanted to go to 250. I do not understand why we reward them.
I have in front of me two examples. In August 1996, 4 months after the new rules went into effect, passed by this Congress, the Brooklyn Legal Services Corp stopped the eviction of a woman, even though they found 54 vials of crack cocaine…
This regards the We The People program, and the goal of the We The People Program is the most fundamental of American purposes, the perpetuation of American democracy. The We The People Program is conducted across our Nation in elementary…
people are afraid to go outside at night and they worry about that knock on the door that we remember back during the horrible perils of Hitler in World War II when the Jews were taken out in the middle of the night, never to be seen…
I feel kind of honored that I would be put in the same category as Cyrano de Bergerac. Let me get to the point of the debate, talking about on this particular issue. Mr. Chairman, we talk about tragedies and human rights violations all…
Mr. Chairman, I want to give a specific example of how the School of the Americas helps America, the United States of America. The Colombian National Police, which is one of our frontline combatant units against the drug cartels in…
the legislative branch appropriations bill for fiscal year 1998 cuts the funding level for the General Accounting Office by $9 million from the fiscal year 1997 funding level. This cut is unwise and unfair and should be reversed in…
I strongly oppose MFN for China. My reasons to defeat MFN. human rights Every year since 1980, when President Carter first extended China MFN, supporters have argued that this action will help the United States promote human rights in…
I rise in support of H.R. 1553, which I introduced in May, along with Congressman Henry Waxman and Congressman Louis Stokes. H.R. 1553 amends the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 to provide one additional year…
We are investigating a possible massive scheme, massive scheme of funneling millions of dollars in foreign money into the U.S. electoral system. We are investigating allegations that the Chinese Government at the highest levels decided to…
John Myers is here with us today, and we are very glad to see him again. John was a leader in Indiana politics for over 30 years. He was active in civic affairs as well as political affairs and contributed mightily to Indiana, as well as…
I just want to real quickly say that the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Lampson] ought to be commended for what he is doing in trying to find missing children. I think that should be an example for every Member of this House, and this shows his…
I would just like to say, Mr. Speaker, that the comments of my colleague, the gentleman from New York [Mr. Solomon], chairman of the Committee on Rules, are not lost on the American people. They know that when you add $1.7 million, $10…
Mr. Chairman, I understand that there is controversy over whether we go to 12 months or 18 months. When I was a boy, I was in a welfare agency home, a foster, and a setting of the type we are discussing today; and I can tell my colleagues…
last year I was very pleased to have played a part in making sure that the adoption credit was passed. This credit helped make adoption more affordable for numerous parents who could not afford adoption costs. However, it is evident that…
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