text: If the LSC-funded lawyers were here arguing that the statute permitted representation of individual welfare claimants who did not challenge existing law , I venture to say that the Court would endorse their argument- perhaps with stirring language about the importance of aid to welfare applicants and the Court 's unwillingness to presume without clear indication that Congress would want to eliminate it .
  
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  Aid to welfare applicants is federally mandated .