More LRAP
April 26th, 2007 at 20:32Junior Iowa Senator Tom Harkin (a Democrat) has introduced S. 1167 (”the Civil Legal Assistance Attorney Loan Repayment Act”) [GovTrack | OpenCongress | Thomas], which would create a $10 million loan repayment assistance program for legal aid attorneys. The bill text tracks the current prosecutor/public defender LRAP bills (S. 442 and H.R. 916) pretty closely, except that the legal aid one would only offer $6,000 in assistance annually, while the prosecutors and PDs would get up to $10,000 every year. Also, S. 442 has already made it out of committee and has a bipartisan set of co-sponsors; Harkin has no co-sponsors yet on S. 1167.
May 19th, 2007 at 12:37
[…] Now, some of you might be asking: well, then how come, Mr. Usefulinfo, you have been using this blog to call attention to and support congressional bills that would create federal loan repayment programs for public interest lawyers? I support those bills because, in the context of federal spending policy, they’re better than a hundred other subsidies. Among my choices for how my government is going to spend our money, LRAPs for prosecutors, PDs, and legal aid attorneys seem almost like a good idea. […]