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Senate votes to cut off ACORN housing funds

hypocritexposer

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“Until a full investigation is launched into ACORN, no taxpayer money should be used to fund its activities. A vote in favor of my amendment is a vote in favor of the taxpayer and a vote against the status quo.”


The Johanns Amendment is #2355 to H.R. 3288.

Update: Amendment passes, 83-7

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/14/senate-votes-on-johanns-amendment-to-cut-off-acorn-housing-funds/

edit, added in votes against.

Dick Durbin (D-IL)
Roland Burris (D-IL)
Robert Casey (D-PA)
Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
 

Sandhusker

Well-known member
:clap: :clap: :clap:

About time Johanns and Nelson did something good!

What kind of pie do you like with this Badaxe? How about a little ice cream?
 

burnt

Well-known member
reader (the Second) said:
And Joe McCarthy was just a delusional paranoid.

And Hitler was just a delusional sociopath.

Just entertainers can be delusional and harmful too.

badaxe, have some fruitcake, if you please! This one is a little different in that it comes full of nuts!

But it's a nice change from pie, and can be bought for a nickle if you want more . . .
 

Steve

Well-known member
reader (the Second) said:
And Joe McCarthy was just a delusional paranoid.

And Hitler was just a delusional sociopath.

Just entertainers can be delusional and harmful too.

how is exposing Acorn's corruption and criminal activities "delusional and harmful"??
 

hypocritexposer

Well-known member
House votes to defund ACORN

(AP) – 4 hours ago

WASHINGTON — The House has voted to deny all federal funding for ACORN, the community organizing group that has been caught up in several scandals.

The House action came several days after the Senate took a similar vote to block the Housing and Urban Development Department from giving grants to ACORN.

Republicans, long critics of the liberal-leaning group that advocates for the poor, led the effort to cut off all federal funds.

California Republican Darrell Issa, who sponsored the measure in the House, says the "scandal surrounding the criminal activities of ACORN have called into question their role in all aspects of government."

The vote, on a provision attached to a student aid bill, was 345-75. All 75 no votes were Democrats.
 
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