Chairman. contrary to what will be said on the floor today. the Legal Services Corporation continues to ignore congressional restrictions. and inappropriate activities continue to run rampant at taxpayers expense. In fiscal year 1996 Congress restricted the activities of Legal Services that they could engage in. These restrictions include the following: prohibition on redistricting activity. abortion litigation. prison litigation. welfare litigation. prounion advocacy and union organizing. feegenerating cases. representation of housing tenants charged with possession of illegal drugs or against whom eviction proceedings had been begun as a result of their Illegal drug activity. and a prohibition of representing most illegal aliens. Legal Services Corporations have made an art out of circumventing congressional restrictions. and yet Congress continues to allocate precious taxpayers dollars in large amounts. and today they want to increase that. And what do we get in return?
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