Legal Services Corporation: Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, on Legal Services Corporation, September 20, 1984, Volume 4

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Page 30 - No part of this appropriation shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes or implementation of any policy including boycott designed to support or defeat legislation pending before Congress or any State legislature.
Page 6 - The president of the Corporation, subject to general policies established by the Board, may appoint and remove such employees of the Corporation as he determines necessary to carry out the purposes of the Corporation.
Page 175 - An employee shall avoid any action, whether or not specifically prohibited by this subpart, which might result in, or create the appearance of: (1) Using public office for private gain...
Page 186 - ... £6,000 in anticipation of a contract signing, this being the initial payment for initial LP called for in the contract. In the unlikely event that we fail to complete within, say, one month you will undertake to pay us £6,000 ... For good order's sake, Brian, I should be appreciative if you could sign the attached copy of this letter and return it to me so that I can keep our accounts people informed of what is happening.
Page 135 - The Corporation shall not, under any provision of this title, interfere with any attorney in carrying out his professional responsibilities to his client as established in the Canons of Ethics and the Code of Professional Responsibility of the American Bar Association (referred to collectively in this title as 'professional responsibilities...
Page 311 - Committee of - 5 the Project Advisory Group and now a Member of the United States House of Representatives, urged the Board to weigh carefully the utility of the regional offices. He said: "Many people in the legal services community believe that the regional offices should have been abolished; that given the size of the reduction, that given real skepticism as to what the regional offices could do to help programs in the years ahead, that the bet thing to do was just abolish the regional offices.
Page 13 - Harrington with the clear understanding that availability of the transcript was subject to both the Rules of the House of Representatives and the Rules of the Committee on Armed Services.
Page 66 - March 1983, about 2V4 years after we first recommended that LSC revise its lobbying regulations, LSC published revised anti-lobbying regulations for LSC-funded programs.
Page 123 - As with the RCA priority-setting contract, OFS faced the possibility of losing these funds for state support purposes if they were not expensed prior to September 30, 1981. OFS decided it could not allow that to happen for two reasons: 1. the LSC Board specifically set these funds aside for state support; and 2.
Page 120 - CAO recommendation; and during 1980, a committee made up of LSC staff and field program representatives discussed the status of priority-setting and what should be done about it. A set of "standards" for priority-setting were produced in September of 1980 as a product of this process. In October or November of 1980, OFS entered into a contract with Rio Grande Associates (RCA) and Ken Neiman to test the priority-setting "standards...

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