2004
1996
2000
355
1960s
1994
What year did the Republicans cut the LSC's budget?
Defending public housing tenants evicted because they were charged with selling drugs
Representing illegal aliens or prisoners
Lobbying, filing class-action suits, participating in political demonstrations or strikes, abortion-related litigation, illegal alien and prisoner representation, and defense of those evicted from federal housing due to the sale of drugs
Criminal cases
What types of cases were prohibited by PL 104-134?
Funding some programs to provide legal assistance to the poor
Fighting for liberal causes
The money would go to help states, such as Michigan and Ohio, that lost money when the organization redistributed its funding based on census counts made in 2000 of poor households
Helping Michigan and Ohio, that lost money when the organization redistributed its funding based on census counts
Opposition to the organization has cooled since 1996
To include it in the organization's fiscal 2004 funding
The Senate's onetime added contribution of $19 million to the LSC budget will go towards helping what cause?
Democratic
Libertarian
Republican
Which political party cut the LSC's budget?
$348 million
300 million
The current budget is $329 million and the increase would bring it to $348 million
319 million
List the current budget of the LSC, and the budget with the addition of the onetime increase.
The NAACP
The Legal Services Corp. (LSC)
The Republicans
LSC
Michigan
What organization did Congress approve restriction on the sorts of cases federally funded legal aid attorneys can take?
The Legal Services Corp
The Republicans
Michigan
The NAACP
Republicans cut which organization's budget deeply in 1996?
There were too many parties
Spending too much time fighting for liberal causes or pursuing politically charged cases against the government
It says opposition was happening, but the opposition cooled after their budget was cut, and many types of cases were no longer allowed to be handled by LSC funded legal aid
What actions taken toward the LSC makes us think the view of the LSC might be a politically motivated one?
To help people with finances
A quasi-governmental agency that provides legal aid for the poor
It was created in 1974 to provide funding to states for families who need civil legal services but are under 125% of the federal poverty line. They help in domestic abuse, custody matters, and other matters
Provide the year in which the LSC was created and a summary of its services.
The Legal Services Corp
The NAACP
Opposition to which organization has cooled since 1996?
The Legal Services Corp
The Senate
LSC
LSN
A quasi-governmental agency
What organization redistributed its funding based on census counts in Ohio and Michigan?
Slow recovery
Its funding has recovered slowly
It has declined
What has happened to the LSC's funding since the 1996 budget cut?
The Legal Services Corp. (LSC), a quasi-governmental agency that provides legal aid for the poor, would receive $329 million in fiscal 2004 under President Bush's proposal - the same amount requested in 2003 and approved for 2002 and 2001. If approved, the hold-the-line request for LSC means its budget would erode with inflation for another year, but it could be worse for the organization: Many conservatives fought for years to do away with the LSC altogether, saying legal services attorneys were spending too much time fighting for liberal causes or pursuing politically charged cases against the government instead of representing the needy. Opposition to the organization has cooled since 1996, when Congress approved restrictions (PL 104-134) on the sorts of cases federally funded legal aid attorneys can take. (1996 Almanac, p. 5-36) Republicans cut the organization's budget deeply in 1996, but its funding has recovered slowly. Last month, in the omnibus spending bill for fiscal 2003, the Senate added a onetime increase of $19 million, which, if approved in the final version, would bring the LSC budget to $348 million. The money would go to help states, such as Michigan and Ohio, that lost money when the organization redistributed its funding based on census counts made in 2000 of poor households. If the extra money survives a conference with the House and makes it to the president's desk, LSC supporters may try to include it in the organization's fiscal 2004 funding. The federal government began funding some programs to provide legal assistance to the poor in the late 1960s; the Legal Services Corporation was created in 1974 (PL 93-355). LSC gives nearly all its money to state and local agencies, which provide civil legal assistance to those whose income is less than 125 percent of the federal poverty level - $11,075 a year for an individual and $22,625 for a family of four. Funding for legal services goes to defend needy clients in domestic violence cases, custody cases and other such matters, according to LSC. Since 1996, lawyers who receive money from Legal Services have been prohibited from such activities as lobbying legislatures, filing class-action suits, participating in political demonstrations or strikes, pursuing abortion-related litigation, representing illegal aliens or prisoners, or defending public housing tenants evicted because they were charged with selling drugs 