According to Michelle Malkin, the US Senate has passed the Johanns Amendment #2355 to HR 3288 to strip ACORN of HUD Funding!!!
Senator Johanns: (3:14 PM)
· Called up the Johanns Amendment #2355 to H.R. 3288.
· Spoke in favor of the Johanns Amendment #2355 to H.R. 3288.
o "Mr. President, the people of Nebraska sent me to Washington to protect them from waste and fraud and abuse, and they asked me to change the status quo. And I take that responsibility very seriously. That is why my amendment would prohibit one more penny, one more penny of taxpayer money from going to ACORN in the Transportation and Housing Appropriations bill...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."
- 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)
| Burr (R-NC) Byrd (D-WV) Coburn (R-OK) | Graham (R-SC) Gregg (R-NH) Hutchison (R-TX) | McCain (R-AZ) Mikulski (D-MD) Vitter (R-LA) |
| YEAs ---83 | ||
| Akaka (D-HI) Alexander (R-TN) Barrasso (R-WY) Baucus (D-MT) Bayh (D-IN) Begich (D-AK) Bennet (D-CO) Bennett (R-UT) Bingaman (D-NM) Bond (R-MO) Boxer (D-CA) Brown (D-OH) Brownback (R-KS) Bunning (R-KY) Cantwell (D-WA) Cardin (D-MD) Carper (D-DE) Chambliss (R-GA) Cochran (R-MS) Collins (R-ME) Conrad (D-ND) Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) Crapo (R-ID) DeMint (R-SC) Dodd (D-CT) Dorgan (D-ND) Ensign (R-NV) | Enzi (R-WY) Feingold (D-WI) Feinstein (D-CA) Franken (D-MN) Grassley (R-IA) Hagan (D-NC) Harkin (D-IA) Hatch (R-UT) Inhofe (R-OK) Inouye (D-HI) Isakson (R-GA) Johanns (R-NE) Johnson (D-SD) Kaufman (D-DE) Kerry (D-MA) Klobuchar (D-MN) Kohl (D-WI) Kyl (R-AZ) Landrieu (D-LA) Lautenberg (D-NJ) LeMieux (R-FL) Levin (D-MI) Lieberman (ID-CT) Lincoln (D-AR) Lugar (R-IN) McCaskill (D-MO) McConnell (R-KY) Menendez (D-NJ) | Merkley (D-OR) Murkowski (R-AK) Murray (D-WA) Nelson (D-FL) Nelson (D-NE) Pryor (D-AR) Reed (D-RI) Reid (D-NV) Risch (R-ID) Roberts (R-KS) Rockefeller (D-WV) Schumer (D-NY) Sessions (R-AL) Shaheen (D-NH) Shelby (R-AL) Snowe (R-ME) Specter (D-PA) Stabenow (D-MI) Tester (D-MT) Thune (R-SD) Udall (D-CO) Udall (D-NM) Voinovich (R-OH) Warner (D-VA) Webb (D-VA) Wicker (R-MS) Wyden (D-OR) |
| NAYs ---7 | ||
| Burris (D-IL) Casey (D-PA) Durbin (D-IL) | Gillibrand (D-NY) Leahy (D-VT) Sanders (I-VT) | Whitehouse (D-RI) |
| Not Voting - 9 | ||
| Burr (R-NC) Byrd (D-WV) Coburn (R-OK) | Graham (R-SC) Gregg (R-NH) Hutchison (R-TX) | McCain (R-AZ) Mikulski (D-MD) Vitter (R-LA) |
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Well, how about that. No more funding for ACORN. Somehow some politicians became statesmen/women.
About time to start putting country first over politics Well done 83 Senators, would like to know who those 7 business as usual folks are and glad to know that my vote remains confidential but my Congress folks have to face the music.
James:
Unfortunately, ACORN will STILL be getting money from the Feds for other programs, and from various Unions and George Soros via the Center for American Progress.
If this group were a conservative organization instead of a liberal one...there would be Congressional hearings over this...but since they support the Democratic Party...they'll STILL be getting money...and be in business.
We are going to have to keep pounding away at them.