Date: June 18, 2009
Subject: Defunding the Legal Services Corporation
Description: Hensarling (R-TX) amendment that would have struck $440 million from the Commerce Department Appropriations Bill for the Legal Services Corporation. ACU has always opposed this wasteful program which has been used primarily to expand the welfare state and was recently found by the GAO to be rife with waste, fraud and abuse.
Result: Amendment Rejected, 105-317
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