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LETTERS AND TESTIMONY: Legal Services

The ABA frequently corresponds with Members of Congress, the Executive Branch and other governmental bodies and testifies before Congress on matters of importance to the administration of justice and the legal profession.

110thCongress
Date Recipient Description
10-16-07 Senate Letter opposing the reduction of FY 2008 funding for the Legal Services Corporation
06-22-07 Senate Letter urging increased FY 2008 funding for the Legal Services Corporation (Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies, Committee on Appropriations)
06-07-07 House Letter urging increased FY 2008 funding for the Legal Services Corporation (Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies, Committee on Appropriations)
109th Congress
Date Recipient Description
07-06-06 Senate Letter requesting increased LSC Funding FY 07 (Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science, Committee on Appropriations)
06-26-06 House Letter urging support for Obey floor amendment
06-19-06 House Letter urging support for Obey Amendment to increase LSC funding by $25 million (Committee on Appropriations)
06-12-06 House Letter urging LSC funding at $411 million for FY07, the amount requested by bipartisan LSC Board of Directors (Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science, Committee on Appropriations)
09-07-05 Senate Letter supporting Harkin-Smith floor amendment to H.R. 2862 to increase LSC funding, sent to Senators who supported LSC funding in June ‘05
06-22-05 Senate Letter urging support of full LSC funding or at the level of the funding increase of the Harkin Amendment (Committee on Appropriations)
06-20-05 Senate Letter urging funding increase to $363.8 million (Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science, Committee on Appropriations)
06-14-05 House Letter urging ‘no’ vote on Stearns floor amendment to reduce LSC funding
05-23-05 House Letter urging funding of LSC at the full level proposed by its board, $363.8 million (Subcommittee on Science, State, Justice, Commerce, Committee on Appropriations)

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