Thread: Senate votes on Joh. amend. to cut off ACORN housing funds

The house of cards is tumbling. Keep an eye on this to see where it will go. Three videos out now and one has to think there will be more. What an excellent strategy to release them one by one...


Senate votes on Johanns amendment to cut off ACORN housing funds; Update: Dems overwhelmingly voting AYE
By Michelle Malkin • September 14, 2009 05:22 PM

Just watched GOP Sen. Mike Johanns introduce his amendment on the Senate floor banning federal funds in the current transportation and housing appropriations bill from going to ACORN. Currently, ACORN is eligible to receive millions more in taxpayer funds through mortgage counseling, Community Development Block Grants, and the Neighborhood Stabilization Program — in addition to the tens of millions ACORN Housing Corp. has already received.

The vote is underway right now.

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

Johanns cited the BigGovernment.com sting videos as evidence that ACORN cannot be trusted with government money:

“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.â€

“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.â€

And we want Acorn to give us back our tax money they got.

http://www.gop.gov/bill/111/1/hr3288

Below is the paragraphs aimed at ACORN:
There was 8.3 BILLION in the stimulus for ACORN like agencies!

Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation: Provides $196 million for the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, an increase of $15 million or 8 percent over FY 2009. The Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation provides federal financial support, technical assistance, and training for community-based revitalization efforts.


H.R. 3288 provides $21.5 billion in discretionary funding for the Department of Transportation, which includes the Federal Aviation Administration, the Federal Highway Administration, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Federal Railroad Administration, and the Federal Transit Administration. The bill also provides $43.5 funding for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, including funds for Public and Indian Housing, Community Planning and Development programs, and the Federal Housing Administration. Nearly all of these federal agencies received substantial amounts of supplemental funding in FY 2009 and would receive large increases in discretionary spending through H.R. 3288.

Community Planning and Development: Provides $8.9 billion for Community Development and Planning, an increase of $1.1 billion or 14 percent over FY 2009. Programs funding through this account also received $6.7 billion in FY 2009 in emergency supplemental spending. Funding includes $275 million for Section 108 loan guarantees, $2 billion for the HOME Investment Partnerships Program, and $1.8 billion for Homeless assistance grants.

Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation: Provides $196 million for the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, an increase of $15 million or 8 percent over FY 2009. The Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation provides federal financial support, technical assistance, and training for community-based revitalization efforts.

Originally Posted by ELE

And we want Acorn to give us back our tax money they got.

YES because we sure know where it went now!!!

ACORN has been under investigation for some time now in various states,so why would they keep giving them money? Talk about wasted money

So...who are the 7 who voted against this? I see one of them is Dream Act Dick Durbin from my state of Illinois. I wonder how Obama's replacement Burris voted. I have an idea...


5:42pm Eastern. Roll call vote still underway. Several Democrats have voted AYE, including Cardin, Carper, Inouye, Johnson (SD), Murray, Tester, Warner, Bingaman, Begich, Nelson (NE), Webb, Landrieu, Bayh, Conrad, Rockefeller, Dodd, Pryor, Hagan, Kohl, Feingold, Boxer, Nelson (FL), Brown, Harkin, Lincoln, Wyden, Baucus, Klobuchar, Kaufman, Shaheen, Lautenberg (switched from no to yes), Menendez, Stabenow, Leiberman, Levin, McCaskill, Reid, Feinstein, Udall, Bennet (CO) Merkley, Cantwell, Dorgan, Schumer…

Durbin was a no. I’ll have the rest soon.

The final roll call vote – amendment passes 83-7. I’ll post the full roll when it’s up on the Senate site.

This is the beginning, not the end.

The Dems are finally, finally on the defensive on ACORN.

Republicans, keep digging and pushing and connecting the dots.


http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/14/se ... ing-funds/

Interesting that it passed.
I wonder what got in the crawl of all these democrats that made them stand up against ACORN

the amendment---


SA 2356. Mr. JOHANNS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 3288, making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

After section 414, insert the following:

Sec. 4__. None of the funds made available under this Act shall be distributed to--

(1) an organization which has a pending indictment for or has been convicted of a violation under Federal or State law relating to fraudulent voting in any Federal or State election; or

(2) an organization which employs an individual who has a pending indictment for or has been convicted of a violation under Federal or State law relating to fraudulent voting in any Federal or State election.

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-170882.html
ACORN AMENDMENT VOTE