[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 91 (Tuesday, June 6, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H5612]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   THE LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION, AND HOW WE CAN BEST PROVIDE LEGAL 
                         SERVICES FOR THE POOR

  (Mr. GEKAS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEKAS. Mr. Speaker, in the next few weeks this House will be the 
site of a furious debate, as I predict, over the future of legal 
services. As everyone knows, the Legal Services Corporation, as the hub 
of a network across the country who provide, ostensibly, legal services 
for the poor, has come under fire over the years because of its 
adventurism, as some people see it, in political questions, in 
questions that have to do with lobbying the establishment, the 
political structure of our country, rather than to look at how best we 
can serve the poor in providing access to the court systems.
  There are those who want to zero out Legal Services altogether. 
Others want to expand its scope of services in our country. Our 
committee and other committees, both in the Senate and in the House, 
will be looking at this very closely to keep one thing in mind: that if 
the original purposes of Legal Services is to be properly served 
itself, we have to look at how best we can provide legal services for 
the poor, not all the other kinds of adventurist concepts that have 
seeped into the legal services system in the recent past.


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