House Votes to Strip ACORN Funding

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Following the lead of the Senate, the House of Representatives voted 345-75 Thursday afternoon to deny housing and community grant funds to ACORN. The community organizing group is under fire for undercover videos that showed employees discussing prostitution, tax evasion, and smuggling with a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute. The Senate made the same move by a similarly lopsided margin of 83-7 on Monday. In both cases, Democrats supplied all of the "no" votes.

"ACORN has violated serious federal laws, and today the House voted to ensure that taxpayer dollars would no longer be used to fund this corrupt organization," said second-ranked House Republican Eric Cantor of Virginia.

House Votes to Defund ACORN [Associated Press]

Filed Under: House, Scandal, Investigations

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