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B-231210 1 (1990-06-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadntf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General of the United States Wahington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Authority of the Legal Services Corporation to Engage Outside Counsel to Lobby Congress File: B-231210 Date: June 4, 1990 DIGEST Upon reconsideration, we reaffirm our decision B-231210, June 7, 1988, that construed 42 U.S.C. § 2996e(c)(2) (1982) as prohibiting the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) from engaging outside counsel to lobby the Congress to pass legislation of interest to LSC. DECISION The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) has asked us to reconsider our decision B-231210, June 7, 1988. That decision held that section 1006(c)(2) of the Legal Services Corporation Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2996e(c)(2) (1982), prohibits the Corporation from retaining private law firms to influence the Congress to reduce LSC's appropriations. LSC, however, has presented no new arguments for our consideration, and we see no reason to disturb our decision. In the spring of 1988, LSC retained three private law firms for the purpose of influencing the Congress concerning its appropriations for fiscal year 1989. Two of these firms provided advice to LSC regarding legislative and appropriation measures pending before the Congress. Representatives of the third firm immediately registered as lobbyists with the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives under the provisions of 2 U.S.C. § 267 (1982), governing the registration of lobbyists, and began to initiate communications with members of Congress and their staffs on behalf of LSC with regard to LSC's appropriations. As a general matter, section 1006(c)(2) prohibits LSC from attempting to influence legislation and appropriations under consideration by the Congress. It does provide, however, that personnel of the Corporation may testify or make other appropriate communication when formally requested to do so by the Congress, its members and committees, or on its own

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