Legal Services Corporation, LSC Updates, February 20, 2008

As LSC Updates reports: "On February 7, [2008,] the U.S. House of Representatives approved Senator Tom Harkin's, D-IA, loan repayment assistance amendment for civil legal aid lawyers. The amendment was included as section 426 of the College Opportunity and Affordability Act (H.R. 4137), which passed the House by a vote of 354 to 58. Senator Harkin's amendment would require the U.S. Department of Education to provide loan repayments of up to $6,000 a year--$40,000 for a lifetime--to full-time civil legal aid lawyers who agree to remain employed as such for no less than three years . . . . Though both houses of Congress have approved Harkin's amendment, they will have to reconcile the two bills before sending a version to President Bush for final approval."