Sixteen Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) members sent a letter to the chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies (CJS) urging that Congress reconsider restrictions placed on Legal Services Corporation’s (LSC) grantees. Currently regulations force legal aid offices receiving federal funds to establish separate offices and staff if they wish to spend their non-federal funds on activities that are ineligible for federal funding. These include lobbying, participating in agency rule-making, claiming court ordered attorneys' fee awards, and filing class actions on behalf of low-income clients and communities. In the letter, the members of Congress argue that, “Hispanics compromise almost 30 percent of LSC’s workload” and that LSC grantees must have the tools needed “to provide low-income Americans with access to legal assistance.” CHC members join the House Appropriations Committee, the House Judiciary Committee, and the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus in urging Congress to revisit the “private money” restriction. To learn more about the private money restriction see OMB Watch's article entitled Amicus Brief Filed in Challenge to Legal Services Restrictions.