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Fox news:
Republican lawmakers are raising concerns that ACORN, the low-income advocacy group under investigation for voter registration fraud, could be eligible for billions in aid from the economic stimulus proposal working its way through the House.
House Republican Leader John Boehner issued a statement over the weekend noting that the stimulus bill wending its way through Congress provides $4.19 billion for "neighborhood stabilization activities."
He said the money was previously limited to state and local governments, but that Democrats now want part of it to be available to non-profit entities. That means groups like ACORN would be eligible for a portion of the funds.
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., told FOX News Tuesday that the money could be seen as "payoff" for groups' political activities in the last election. ACORN generally supports Democratic candidates and actively backed President Obama last year.
But he said the funding is just one example of frivolous spending items in the $825 billion package.
"It's just a long list of spending items. Not a real economic stimulus job creation bill," Vitter said. "It's line after line after line of favorite liberal spending programs, and it amounts to a big government bill -- not a job creation bill."
Democratic leaders in the House have already dropped federal funding from the bill for new contraceptive services and ongoing programs to stop sexually transmitted diseases after Obama told them that it did not fit in with the job-creating objectives of the package.
Obama plans to meet with Republican leaders on Capitol Hill Tuesday to hear some their input on the package. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Obama is open to suggestions.
"If there are good ideas -- and I think he assumes there will be -- we will look at those ideas," he said Monday
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Obama needs to squash this like he did with the contraception allocation. Has nothing to do with job creation. This congress is horrible!
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Obama needs to squash this like he did with the contraception allocation. Has nothing to do with job creation. This congress is horrible!
dont worry he promised to go over the budget line by line ::)
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This is a big deal guys. If $4.2 million would be designated to ACORN and other community organizing groups, this is utter bullshit. Everyone should be appauled. This is suposed to be an economic stimulus package...Obama better do the right thing and get rid of this! To me, this is worse than the contraception allocation they tried to push through this bill.
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This is a big deal guys. If $4.2 million would be designated to ACORN and other community organizing groups, this is utter bullshit. Everyone should be appauled. This is suposed to be an economic stimulus package...Obama better do the right thing and get rid of this! To me, this is worse than the contraception allocation they tried to push through this bill.
LOL thats nothing they set aside 200 million to restore the mall of america in washington...LOL LINE BY FUKING LINE FOLKS change you can believe in.
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Your right, thats another non-stimulus allocation. What is with these guys? We are in economic straits and they are pushing hundreds of millions of our dollars to items that completely unrelated...
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More welfare.
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50million to national endowment for the arts
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Obama needs to squash this like he did with the contraception allocation. Has nothing to do with job creation. This congress is horrible!
We warned everyone about Obama and not a week into this the truth is coming out.
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Your right, thats another non-stimulus allocation. What is with these guys? We are in economic straits and they are pushing hundreds of millions of our dollars to items that completely unrelated...
Look, I warned everyone and was laughed at.
Obama/Pelosi/Reid are going to make GWB look like scrooge.
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LOL thats nothing they set aside 200 million to restore the mall of america in washington...LOL LINE BY FUKING LINE FOLKS change you can believe in.
this has now been removed from the bill just minutes after the press rep for the white house defended it.
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Since when did "economic stimulus" = "government spending free-for-all?"
Damn... Pelosi ain't right in the head. I mean it. She's brain-damaged. She's got issues.
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Fox news:
Republican lawmakers are raising concerns that ACORN, the low-income advocacy group under investigation for voter registration fraud, could be eligible for billions in aid from the economic stimulus proposal working its way through the House.
House Republican Leader John Boehner issued a statement over the weekend noting that the stimulus bill wending its way through Congress provides $4.19 billion for "neighborhood stabilization activities."
He said the money was previously limited to state and local governments, but that Democrats now want part of it to be available to non-profit entities. That means groups like ACORN would be eligible for a portion of the funds.
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., told FOX News Tuesday that the money could be seen as "payoff" for groups' political activities in the last election. ACORN generally supports Democratic candidates and actively backed President Obama last year.
But he said the funding is just one example of frivolous spending items in the $825 billion package.
"It's just a long list of spending items. Not a real economic stimulus job creation bill," Vitter said. "It's line after line after line of favorite liberal spending programs, and it amounts to a big government bill -- not a job creation bill."
Democratic leaders in the House have already dropped federal funding from the bill for new contraceptive services and ongoing programs to stop sexually transmitted diseases after Obama told them that it did not fit in with the job-creating objectives of the package.
Obama plans to meet with Republican leaders on Capitol Hill Tuesday to hear some their input on the package. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Obama is open to suggestions.
"If there are good ideas -- and I think he assumes there will be -- we will look at those ideas," he said Monday
I read that earlier......it's complete BS.