House GOP to call for total cutoff of federal funds to ACORN

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Sep 15, 2009

Well, it is about time for this. Our two brainless senators, Burris and Durbin apparently want the funds to continue, along with 5 other winners.

Sep 15, 2009

We must include in such a proposal that all organizations who have a limited or extensive relationship with ACORN will be closely reviewed as well. Such an important decision could simply encourage people to move money in a different way. Hit the Rathke boys where it hurts. I want them in front of the Senate to explain a few things.

Sep 15, 2009

Yes!!!!! About time to stop funding these criminals-next convict them

Sep 15, 2009

Thank you FOX News. Truely the best dang show on Cable.

Sep 15, 2009

Flush until the bowl is empty...

Sep 15, 2009

There is no doubt ACORN should be stripped of all funding. Citizens of the United States should not have to fund organized crime.

Sep 15, 2009

as soon as the tax money stops flowing, I want jail time for those starting at the top and working down.

Sep 15, 2009

De-fund the left's jar of favors, just because it's a criminal enterprise? How could you, don't you care about the poor.

Sep 15, 2009

Any no vote sends the message that child-prostitution, slavery, tax evasion and defrauding the government is A-OK in their books. That alone will make great ads to use to vote them out.

Sep 15, 2009

It's about time, I don't know why this is even an issue. ENOUGH with the ACORN corruption and WHERE IS THE STATE RUN MEDIA ON THIS??? What LOSERS they are, can't wait until election day 2010.

Sep 15, 2009

Didn't they say they'd be OK with gvt money???
Cut em off... Cut off $$ to all special interest groups...

Sep 15, 2009

Next big project for ACORN is the census. They are signed up to "count". Their voter registration/voter fraud would pale in comparison to this potential fraud. They need to be immediately suspended from any government related efforts of any kind - pending the investigations, indictments, convictions, and sentencing.
Biggest obstacle to anything ACORN related?? Our own Attorney General and Justice Department.

Sep 15, 2009

What one has here is a criminal enterprise responsible in large part for the financial calamity the country is experiencing. Of course funds should be cut off but these people need to see the inside of a jail as well.

Sep 15, 2009

Watch the dancing. Connect the dots and see if the trail leads to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave! Get to work , Andy Breitbart. Next, let's see where he was REALLY born! Birthers are wackos? Ya, sure! The Emperor Has No Clothes!!

Sep 15, 2009

And from what Glenn Beck said, the most devastating video from Biggovernment.com is coming out today. Can't wait to see how much more corrupt ACORN can get. I'll be watching.

Sep 15, 2009

I do hope the "grey area" (emotion) of wondering what will happen to the poor does not trump the "black & white" of law (what is right). These robbers have been getting rich on the backs of the poor for a long time, the difference between them and the wealthy, the wealthy make the money for both themselves and the criminals at ACORN, thanks to our bleeding heart government.

Sep 15, 2009

Do you honesty believe Obama is going to allow this to happen? It was ACORN that put him in the White House. The FEDS will not cut off funding, Congress will only make it look like they are doing something. The DEMS love ACORN !

Sep 15, 2009

Keep digging. Could be that some in ACORN have impeachable evidence on Obama. With his track record of unguarded moments (Gates arrest, Kanye West jackass remark), it's entirely possible.

Sep 15, 2009

So finally someone in Congress is doing something about a corrupt organization that many Libertarians, like me, have been screaming about for years. Nice of the Senate to finally wake up, oh and to the GOP in the House too. So sorry that Nazi Pelosi won't allow the bill to get to the floor. I wonder who she'll react - if she does - when she hears the ACORN worker from San Bernardino admit to murdering her husband? Will Obama finally cut his ties to this criminal organization that makes Al Capone's mob look like rank amateurs?

Sep 15, 2009

This is so sad!

Sep 15, 2009

close down funding, complete audit of books for past 7 yrs., follow the money trail... examine all linked companies. prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.
nothing special, just do what should have been done for all public $ handed out.

Sep 15, 2009

This is not good enough.

ACORN Housing Inc is the enterprise that has been engaged by O'Keefe and Giles. All these measures do is cut off Acorn Housing Inc. What we do know is that ACORN uses a spider web of organizations that transfer money between them. Outfits that are allegedly independent are housed in the same offices as ACORN. Outfits that are allgedly independent share the same spokespeople and national leadership.

Bertha Lewis has no relation to ACORN Housing Inc, yet she is issuing comments and lobbying on its behalf.

The ACORN Institute has two pending grant applications through the Stimulus funded Broadband initiative. This is funding that falls under the Commerce Department. It is for a little more than 6 million dollars.

The Congress needs to investigate how ACORN is organized. This does not require a criminal investigation. The Congress should seek voluntary cooperation from ACORN officials.

Sep 15, 2009

However, due to corruption., overspending and complete disregard for conservative principles, the GOP can't get a bill so much as brought up in committee right now. So this is mostly grandstanding. If they were in the majority, they'd find a way to keep the funding going since they never saw a dollar they couldn't waste. Funding for ACORN didn't just get in the budget on January 20 of this year.

Sep 15, 2009

Along with Barney Frank it is easy to see how the recession started.

Sep 15, 2009

This kind of spending is what happens when our representative sign bills that no one reads!!!The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution with all amendments consist of 46 pages, and the representatives apparently can't read that!!It is time the American people get wise to these Big Government spendthrifts and insist they limit bills to something they can read and understan before signing. Now we may get someone to check into John Murtha's airport!!!

Sep 15, 2009

This is a good start. We also want to see investigation proceedings on ACORN and SEIU. Our republican representatives need to be on notice that WE THE PEOPLE are watching and acting now. No longer are we going to be satisfied with a mini clean up action. We demand a clean up of corruption on both sides of the isle. If we don't see it we will be supporting a third party candidate, if that 3rd party candidate stands for clean up of Washington corruption

Sep 15, 2009

Now they need to investigate all ties to ACORN including SEIU that is also funded by our tax dollars and created the health care bill for Obama? They can't read because they are too busy calling each other names and then voting on who to put in time out???? Maybe if they actually worked for us we could get somewhere. This will go down as the worst Gov AGENDA in history!

Sep 15, 2009

Who were they idiots that didn't read what they were voting on? LOL Is there any way to find out?

Sep 15, 2009

Where can we get a list of the 7 who voted against the defunding?

Sep 15, 2009

WONDERFUL NEWS!

"...they stab it with their steely knives but they just can't kill the beast..." UNTIL NOW!

"...death by a million cuts..."

....for once we are finally going to start seeing a budget that starts save money.

Sep 15, 2009

Once again Mikulski fails to act. Maybe she's too close to the fire....

See how they voted
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00275

Sep 15, 2009

Has anyone noticed the bare bones office space in each of the three videos? Where have the millions that have already been poured into ACORN gone to ? Clearly not into Office furnishings. They don't even have a bulletin board, there are notes taped to the otherwise bare walls. The names of the seven criminals who voted NO should be splashed all over the internet. (Let's be honest, the main streamers in the media won't touch this hot potato)

Sep 15, 2009

The list of seven nays on the amendment:

* 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)

Sep 15, 2009

We need to keep our guard up! Given a chance our corrupt congress will find another way to get money to this cirminal orgaization. Why has congress been so reluctant to take any action aginst ACORN? You don't suppose there was any possibility of "KICK BACKS" do you?

Sep 15, 2009

I love this. Boeing engages infinite corruption. Congress doesn't even bat an eye. ACORN has a few bad apples and we have huge congressional action. Guess which one is a huge corporation and which is full of black people?

Sep 15, 2009

The best thing in life is to crush the ACORNistas, to see them defunded, and to hear the lamentations of the lefty pundits.

Sep 15, 2009

For tqwhite: Boeing's activities aren't funded by taxpayers. That's the difference, you brainless dolt.

Sep 15, 2009

This, along with the tape to be aired on the Glenn Beck program this evening should be more than enough for the Justice Department to proscute ACORN and its affiliates, especially the SEIU, under the RICO statutes. THese organizations should be disbanded and never again see the light of day.

Sep 15, 2009

Acorn's Founding Counsel- Obama's Little Minions- corrupt??- Everything Obama has touched is Evil- as are all his associations and 40 czar's-( esp. the Czarina's Cass and Rhamm ). Why dont the lefties get it?? They WELCOME evil into this Country -they are GODLESS GHOULS- and they have their Man in Place to Destroy this Nation from within- The Old Hippies and the Weather Underground; et al- the Commies- being firmly entrenched and running the White House/Judiciary/Congress/ and the Media and Academia- Does this Nation stand a Chance?? Especially with so few Republicans with a spine- I hope the Congress Enjoy the last few days of being able to be bribed by the Lobbyist's as they will have lost this Nation and their Positions to unappointed CZARS- What a gaggle of Fools in Washington- if we survive to 2010- lets hope the Tea Party is the tip of the iceberg that will sink the crooks in Washington.

Sep 15, 2009

I want to know where you people were when cheney should have been tried for WAR crimes. Hypocrites digging for needles in a haystack.

Sep 15, 2009

To sss: We people were in the living breathing real world instead of the bizarro diseased imaginary twilight zone you live in.

Sep 15, 2009

Thanks for doing the congress' job Glenn Beck! You embarrassed the dunces into doing part of their job!

Sep 15, 2009

not only and investigation, a COMPLETE return of all money ever given to them. SEIU needs to be next, they leader of that organization is the BROTHER of the leader of ACORN. And to think President Obama DEFENDED them.

Sep 15, 2009

Eagle Eye you said it all.you know WE THE PEOPLE of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA also need to get back in the picture as well.If it's not already too late. It's time we take a stand and let the ones in the white house know we have their back,if they are doing what's right. And if they are not we need to remove them IMMIDIATELY.

Sep 15, 2009

Any investigation must also include an investigation of the Congress people who took ACORN campaign $$ from any of their 300 organizations. I bet a little "dirt" will be kicked up.

Sep 15, 2009

All those congressmen that took money from ACORN are the ones that will not stop the funding. They have already been bought.

Sep 16, 2009

I can see this groundswell of citizen activism will lead to Mrs. Palin becoming an even brighter rising star. Cleaning up corruption is her forte` As Glen Beck has been saying for weeks.... Wake up America! You can do this!

Go Beck and Palin. ( Just had this thought, Imagine a Palin/Beck ticket in 2012)

I'm a Conservative Canadian, and I like what is happening in the USA, People making the first steps to taking their country back. You conservatives that are writing your Congressman/Senator: Don't give up. Keep at them. And Vote out all incumbents in the next election in 2010, and the remainder in 2012. You can do this!

Sep 16, 2009

Cut ACORN off, then investigate them!
Then cut LaRAZA, NEA, and every special interest organization.

If they cannot stay open with public donations, then they need to die out!

Sep 16, 2009

An investigation should start with George Soros and how he is wrecking our economy, as he did with other countries....he is behind every far left organization in this country!

Sep 16, 2009

I am just sick. I went to Washington
last Saturday.. I have sent money to
Tarkanian who is challenging Reed (I
live in Florida). I have emailed Holder
(who is bought already) demanding he
investigate ACORN..I have sent emails
to the sordid 7 who voted to continue
support of the criminals at ACORN. What
more can I do? Please people...we can do this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sep 17, 2009

An audit of tax-exempt ACORN's finances should be a priority. It's quite evident that the corruption within ACORN is systemic from the top down. There are good people in that organization, but since the government has consistently failed to perform adequate oversight since 1994 and given them $53 million taxpayer dollars the corruption seems to be rampant. Don't these inspector generals provide even quarterly reports to congress? Is congress to busy campaigning to even question the reports? The government's performance on oversight is laughable.

Sep 20, 2009

Are you kiddin me Mr President?! I beleive the 8 billion dollar funding for ACORN is in the Stimulus Bill you wrote but did not read! Can't make this crap up folks. Oh and lets see now he is willing to bailout the failed newpaper industries! and has the balls to say that the accurate journalism is essential to America. What he really means to say is " I want to bailout my media buddies who were as unfortunate to suffer low sales and rating as result of not reporting my affiliations with ACORN , Bill Ayers the REV Wright and countless other Czars and communists! Wake up America! and stop the lies Mr President

Dec 2, 2009

i dont understand why they funded acorn like this it has already taken $53 million from the federal funds, its high time that they should cut all aids to ACORN. However the republicans did a great job by introducing this bill.
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Dec 30, 2009

Nice of the Senate to finally wake up, oh and to the GOP in the House too.

Jan 5, 2010

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Jan 9, 2010

They need to be immediately suspended from any government related efforts of any kind - pending the investigations, indictments, convictions, and sentencing.mass communications degree | online human services degree | International business degree

Jan 9, 2010

Is congress to busy campaigning to even question the reports? The government's performance on oversight is laughable...Must University | english degree

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