Committee Hearings, Funding for Legal Services
This page contains testimony given before Congressional committees related
to this issue. Note that many organizations giving testimony before committees
also have statements and information available on their own webpages. That material
is available under organizational statements.
This page contains all abstracts from hearings, but only selected transcripts
released electronically by the relevant committee.
Abstracts:
- House Appropriations
Committee, Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary Subcommittee, 3/3/99
- House Appropriations
Committee, Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary Subcommittee, 1999
- House Appropriations
Committee, Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary Subcommittee, 2/17/00
- House Appropriations
Committee, Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary Subcommittee, 2000
- House
Judiciary Committee, Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee, 9/29/99
- Senate Indian
Affairs Committee, 9/29/99
Testimony:
- Rep.
George W. Gekas, House Appropriations Committee, Commercial and Administrative
Law Subcommittee, 3/23/00
- Douglas
S. Eakeley - Legal Services Corporation, House Appropriations Committee, Commerce,
Justice, State, and the Judiciary Subcommittee, 3/3/99
- Rep.
Harold Rogers, et al., House Appropriations Committee, Commerce, Justice,
State, and the Judiciary Subcommittee, 3/16/99
- William
H. Schorling - American Bar Association's , House Judiciary Committee, Commercial
and Administrative Law Subcommittee, 3/18/99
- Rep.
Constance A. Morella, House Appropriations Committee, Commerce, Justice, State,
and the Judiciary Subcommittee, 4/15/99
- Kenneth
F. Boehm - National Legal and Policy Center, House Judiciary Committee, Commercial
and Administrative Law Subcommittee, 9/29/99
- Laurie
E. Ekstrand - Government Accounting Office, House Judiciary Committee, Commercial
and Administrative Law Subcommittee, 9/29/99
- John
Erlenborn - Legal Services Corporation, House Judiciary Committee, Commercial
and Administrative Law Subcommittee, 9/29/99
- Rep.
George W. Gekas, House Judiciary Committee, Commercial and Administrative
Law Subcommittee, 9/29/99
- John
Pickering - American Bar Association, House Judiciary Committee, Commercial
and Administrative Law Subcommittee, 9/29/99
- Edouard
Quatrevaux - Legal Services Corporation, House Judiciary Committee, Commercial
and Administrative Law Subcommittee, 9/29/99
- Virginia
L. Thomas - Heritage Foundation, House Judiciary Committee, Commercial and
Administrative Law Subcommittee, 9/29/99
- John
N. Erlenborn and John McKay - Legal Services Corporation, House Appropriations
Committee, Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary Subcommittee, 2/17/00
- Cecilia
Munoz - National Council of La Raza, House Judiciary Committee, Immigration
and Claims Subcommittee, 5/4/00
- Cecilia
Munoz - National Council of La Raza, House Judiciary Committee, Immigration
and Claims Subcommittee, 6/15/00
- Leslye
Orloff - National Organization of Women, House Judiciary Committee, Immigration
and Claims Subcommittee, 7/20/00
- Jacqueline
Rishty - Catholic Charities USA, House Judiciary Committee, Immigration and
Claims Subcommittee, 7/20/00
- Rep.
Tom Tancredo, House Rules Committee, 9/13/00
- Kenneth
F. Boehm - National Legal and Policy Center, House Small Business Committee,
Government Programs and Oversight Subcommittee, 7/27/99
- Garry
G. Geffert - Legal Services Plan, Inc., House Ways and Means Committee, Social
Security Subcommittee, 5/4/00
- Virginia
P. Coto - Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center, Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Subcommittee, 4/4/00
- Robert
D. Evans - American Bar Association, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and
Pensions Committee, Aging Subcommittee, 4/30/99
- Eric
D. Eberhard - National Association of Indian Legal Services, Senate Indian
Affairs Committee, 9/29/99
- John
McKay - Legal Services Corporation, Senate Indian Affairs Committee, 9/29/99
- Peterson
Zah - National Association of Indian Legal Services, Senate Indian Affairs
Committee, 9/29/99
- Cecilia
Munoz - National Council of La Raza, Senate Judiciary Committee, Immigration
Subcommittee, 5/12/99
- Sen.
Sam Brownback, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Near Eastern Affairs Subcommittee,
4/4/00