The agency has shrunk over the past few years because it's been barred since 1995 from bringing class-action lawsuits and welfare reform challenges and banned from collecting attorneys fees from lawsuits and from doing any legislative lobbying.
The agency has shrunk by over a third, since it was barred in 1995.
mnli hypothesis: The agency has shrunk by over a third, since it was barred in 1995. premise: The agency has shrunk over the past few years because it's been barred since 1995 from bringing class-action lawsuits and welfare reform challenges and banned from collecting attorneys fees from lawsuits and from doing any legislative lobbying.