On the recordJuly 23, 1996
I am in favor of legal services for the poor, in favor of the delivery system that works and in favor of a system that makes sure that the needs are met of the poor, not the abstract needs that the Legal Services Corporation itself had delved into over the years. And so we devised a block grant. If indeed this amendment that we are considering right now was one in which we take $250 million and turn it over to the States in a block grant system that we had devised in my committee, I would vote for it. But what we are doing here is perpetuating the Legal Services Corporation, which in my judgment is the cause, the root cause, of all the anecdotes of abuse that we have heard on this floor here today. I might say that the anecdotes which are derived as being mere anecdotes are volumes now. Fifty witnesses had 50 anecdotes in 2 days of hearings in my committee.
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