Chaka Fattah: “Reclaiming my time, in closing, I participated with the former Attorney General, Dick Thornburgh, in a pro bono effort…”

“Reclaiming my time, in closing, I participated with the former Attorney General, Dick Thornburgh, in a pro bono effort for some of our major law firms, which is great. However, national Legal Services in many of these rural communities, unlike a big city like Philadelphia, don't have the benefit of the law firms where they can have pro bono partners and the like. If they are going to have a lawyer for a soldier, a veteran who needs help on a foreclosure, it is going to be Legal Services. So to cut off their access to the court is the wrong thing for us to do, and I oppose the amendment. I yield back the balance of my time.”