House votes to defund Acorn - headline on Drudge

I was happy to see the Senate vote on this but thought it would die fast in the house.  This suprises me.

Sweet, were a RICO investigation away from a damn good week!

In before the Glenn Beck haters

I thought this already happened.  What was that 83-7 vote they had earlier this week?

That was the Senate vote.  Both houses need to pass legislation for it to reach Obama's desk.  Ball's in his court now.

That was the Senate. This one is from the House.

BTW, it appears to me that ACORN just got kicked in the nuts (pun intended)!

now will he sign it or will he veto it...............

what was the score on the House vote?

I pray he vetos it.

Wow, talk about damned if you do, damned if you dont.

Under My Bus!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfL-Oj1rQ-c

ETA:  By the end of his term, the remake will be longer than "In-a-godda-da-vida".

http://biggovernment.com/

Rep. Darrell Issa  (R-CA) offered the Defund-ACORN bill to the Student Loans bill.  The House vote convincingly to cut ALL federal funds to ACORN.

Vote: 375 to 75.  

Developing…


The Vote

This would be excellent news.

All of the nay votes were Democrats....color me shocked.

–––– NOES/Voted against defunding acorn    75 ––-

Baldwin
Becerra
Brady (PA)
Brown, Corrine
Butterfield
Capuano
Carson (IN)
Castor (FL)
Cleaver
Clyburn
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (IL)
DeGette
Delahunt
Doyle
Edwards (MD)
Ellison
Engel
Fattah
Filner
Fudge
Green, Al
Grijalva
Hinchey
Hirono
Holt
Honda
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Johnson, E. B.
Kilpatrick (MI)
Kucinich
Larsen (WA)
Lee (CA)
Lewis (GA)
Lynch
Markey (MA)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
Meeks (NY)
Mollohan
Moore (WI)
Moran (VA)
Nadler (NY)
Neal (MA)
Olver
Pallone
Pascrell
Payne
Polis (CO)
Price (NC)
Rahall
Rangel
Roybal-Allard
Rush
Sánchez, Linda T.
Schakowsky
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Sherman
Sires
Slaughter
Stark
Thompson (MS)
Towns
Tsongas
Velázquez
Waters
Watson
Waxman
Wexler
Woolsey

Funny how no one has remarked that this student loan bill effectively forces students under the color of law to get their student loans EXCLUSIVELY from the Federal Government.  We just won a battle and mistakenly believed we won the war.

Yahoo

WASHINGTON – The House is poised to vote to push private lenders out of the federal college loan business and massively expand the government's own lending program.

Following a day of debate, House lawmakers were expected to approve on Thursday a student aid bill that has widespread support, including from the White House. The measure will then go to the Senate, where its fate is somewhat less certain.

Putting the government in charge of all federal loans would save taxpayers an estimated $87 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The CBO says the figure could be much lower, $47 billion, when administrative costs and market conditions are considered.

The money would boost Pell Grants for needy students, increasing the maximum grant by $1,400 to $6,900 over the next decade. It also would pay for a new college completion fund, community college reforms and more college aid for veterans.

"No student in this great country of ours should have to mortgage their future to pursue their dreams," said the bill's sponsor, California Democratic Rep. George Miller, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee.

Yet the money also would be spent on things that don't help pay for college, such as construction at K-12 schools and new preschool programs.

And while the measure would increase Pell Grants, it would do nothing to curb college costs, which rise much faster than Pell Grants do.

As consumers, college students probably wouldn't notice much difference in their loans, which they would get through their schools. Broadly speaking, the bill doesn't do much to make loans cheaper or help pay them off.

It does keep interest rates for need-based federal loans from jumping from 3.4 percent currently to 6.8 percent as scheduled in 2012. Rates for most other loans would remain at 6.8 percent.

Still, the bill's changes to federal college aid programs would be the most sweeping since their creation in the 1960s and would fulfill a campaign promise by President Barack Obama.

The measure would end the subsidized loan program under which private lenders made $56 billion in government-backed loans to more than 6 million students last year, compared with $14 billion in direct loans from the government.

The bill would also shorten the labyrinthine college aid form, which Obama proposed to eliminate altogether when he ran for president.

Republican critics argue it is wrong to put the government in near-total control of student lending.

"Ask yourselves whether another government takeover is what we need right now," said Minnesota Rep. John Kline, senior Republican on the Education Committee.

Many also worry about job losses in their districts. Private lenders employ more than 30,000 people whose jobs depend on the subsidized loan program, and the industry says many would be laid off.

Employees of Sallie Mae, the biggest student lender, have been trying to involve local leaders in the issue and recently held a series of town hall meetings and petition drives in Pennsylvania, Florida, Delaware, New York and Indiana.

The Reston, Va.-based lender has about 8,500 employees in the program and probably would lay off about 30 percent of those workers. It still will have contracts to service federal loans.

Democratic Rep. David Wu of Oregon said lenders still could make all the loans they want. "What will not happen anymore is making those student loans with taxpayer subsidies," he said.

Under the measure, Pell Grants would rise slightly more than inflation over the next decade, increasing on average by about 2.6 percent yearly, according to the bill's sponsors.

However, the grants would still depend on annual spending bills and could rise less than promised, as has happened in the past.

Obama originally proposed to take Pell Grants out of lawmakers' hands entirely, making the program an entitlement like Social Security and Medicare, which would have cost an estimated $117 billion — more than lawmakers have to spend.

I couldn't find Pelosi's vote.  Anyone know how she voted?

Beck is going to have a field day with this.  "Democrats, have you lost your SOULS????"

And what a surprise, all Dems.

I believe she's a senator. I would be curious as to how the Senate vote went. I'm curious as to what 10 did not vote.





ETA: I know she's speaker of the house, you mongloids!  Doesn't the SOH still cast a vote?

As Rush said, they will disband as ACORN and start back up as PEANUT.    Same bad actors, same slimy actions.

No, she is Speaker of the House.

 

Bro, seriously, study up on the structure of Congress before Jay Leno stops you on the street.

we just cant win






everything has to be attached to something else.  why the hell cant their be a stand alone bill for it



 

No, she's Speaker of the House, I saw the sign for her office last week in a corridor of the Capitol.

 

So is Soros going to be able to fund that POS completely out of pocket?

YEah, f'rs...catching up on the bill; one I missed with all the other crap going on.  Looks like they just put Sallie Mae out of business and pulled student loans away from the banks.

Yeah, doesn't the speaker get to vote?

Or, does the fact that she is "clueless" about the senate vote excuse her?

I can just imagine him saying that!

He was probably chasing black helicopters outside

+1   Next week it will be the same people...just a different name.  

Dude ... she is the Speaker of the House.

Those are veto-proof numbers in both houses. More like he either signs it or doesn't sign it. Either way, it'll become law.

This asswipe is my rep.  His district is predominantly inner city minority, except the south/southwestern fringe of conservative white folks.  He is voting lock, stock, and barrel with Kenya and Co.  So this doesn't surprise me at all.  In fact, i wouldn't be a bit surprised if he didn't utilize the services of ACORN IYKWIM.  His grandmother made WSJ news by bussing people to multiple polls.  And people wonder why IN instituted voter ID requirements.

Oh my, without ACORN where will the Dems get the extra votes they were counting on next year?  I'm betting that if you look at the nay voters and their upcoming races; much will be revealed.

Senate.



 

Surprise Surprise Surprise






 

At least don't be wearing an ARFCOM shirt.

Color me surprised that Lewis from GA voted No.

He said it yesterday or the day before.

In fact, I think he's said it a few times.
 

Wexler, one of those who voted against defunding acorn is the congressman from my district.

The piece of shit; he hasn't even been a legal resident of the district he represents.

Glen Beck now has two notches in his six shooter.  One for Van Johson and one for ACORN.

Yes because those kids just flew all over the place and did all the work.



Glen reported it

Man, Beck is on fire!



Does this vote have any actual impact on funding?

HH

About time they get their heads out of their asses on something.