Breaking: House votes to suspend payments to ACORN
posted at 2:58 pm on September 17, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
The fallout continues from the undercover videos taken at ACORN offices across the country. The House has followed the lead of the Senate in voting to cut off funds to ACORN, this time in the Student Loans Bill. The final vote was a solidly bipartisan 345-75.
How many newspapers will carry this story tomorrow? How many won’t?
The other story in this vote is the fact that the US has more or less nationalized the student-loan industry:
The biggest change in U.S. higher education finance in 35 years was approved on Thursday by the House of Representatives, handing a defeat to major banks and student loan giant Sallie Mae.
Lawmakers voted 253-171 in favor of legislation that would cut the banks and Sallie Mae out of a large slice of the $92 billion college student loan business, shifting most lending into a program run by the U.S. Education Department.
The bill, supported by the White House, will go next to the Senate for further consideration.
Think of it as single-payer for student loans. It’s a potential disaster. We’ll have more on this when it moves into the Senate.
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fck acorn
blatantblue on September 17, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Beraking???
I can’t find that word in my dictionary.
MarkTheGreat on September 17, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Interesting take.
amerpundit on September 17, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Dude: quick “spellcheck Beraking!”
ted c on September 17, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Breaking is what you mean
lavell12 on September 17, 2009 at 3:00 PM
w00t w00t
PWN3D Again!!!
LordMaximus on September 17, 2009 at 3:00 PM
“Beraking”
Calm down..
the_nile on September 17, 2009 at 3:00 PM
My representative likes child sex trafficking. I’m not surprised.
sammypants on September 17, 2009 at 3:01 PM
Big Government strikes again!
Good Lt on September 17, 2009 at 3:01 PM
To: Representative Mike Honda
Subject: ACORN and disclosure
According to the Washington Examiner (here: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/House-votes-to-cut-off-ACORN-funding-59647917.html), you were one of the 75 Representatives to vote *against* defunding the criminal enterprise ACORN.
Considering their longstanding record of vote fraud, combined with recent revelations of complicity with tax fraud, mortgage fraud, prostitution and human trafficking (http://biggovernment.com/), I feel that citizens in your district should have an explanation of your stance on this issue.
It would be best to post it on the front page of your website, so I can refer friends and neighbors to your exact words.
cthulhu on September 17, 2009 at 3:01 PM
whoomp there it is!
ginaswo on September 17, 2009 at 3:01 PM
Votes are posted here:
http://biggovernment.com/2009/09/17/final-vote-results-for-roll-call/#more-4290
ace tomato on September 17, 2009 at 3:01 PM
Awesome, now hit ACORN with RICO.
Torch on September 17, 2009 at 3:01 PM
Right now they are voting on an amendment to cut off public funding to convicted drug dealers, those convicted of domestic violence and convicted gang members. I’ve been listening to the vote and it doesn’t look good. Lots of “no”s.
Amdendment comes from Vitter (R-LA)
milwife88 on September 17, 2009 at 3:01 PM
The student loan industry is the next financial bubble to burst. 50k in loans given to kids with no assets, who get worthless degrees and can never pay it off, while the interest capitalizes. The govt should get out of the loan business, and dozens of diploma mills would go out of business.
brak on September 17, 2009 at 3:02 PM
Did Pelosi vote for or against it?
I’m going to say she didn’t even know that they were voting.
ayrab on September 17, 2009 at 3:02 PM
What is sad here is they myth that people can’t afford to go to college. there is nobody today who can’t go to college and afford it through loans, grants, work, etc. there is absolutely no reason for this bill – except to give direct control to the admin of this money and how they are going to dole it out.
Just another example of how the dems and obama want total gov’t control over absolutely everything.
Monkeytoe on September 17, 2009 at 3:02 PM
Hannah/James 20something!
Christien on September 17, 2009 at 3:02 PM
We will have 3 more years of Beraking, I’m afraid.
faraway on September 17, 2009 at 3:02 PM
The government already controls the student loan process to a large extent, which is one of the reasons college tuition keeps rising faster than inflation.
There’s also something floating around about individuals who work in civil service for 10 years having all their student loans forgiven (and paid for by the taxpayers). I’m not sure if that part made it into this bill or not.
BadgerHawk on September 17, 2009 at 3:02 PM
Rumor has it Issa (R) drafted it and added it to a college bill.
Chances are, half those pinheads have no idea they voted to defund ACORN. Which is hilarious, but also kind of sad.
Guess it’s time to start reading those bills, eh? LOL
ace tomato on September 17, 2009 at 3:03 PM
Ed will never live down the Beraking
blatantblue on September 17, 2009 at 3:03 PM
Right now she is crying
upinak on September 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM
Baracking?
patriette on September 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM
I asked on a previous thread and I’ll ask again.
DOES OBAMA SIGN IT?
As MM said:
“Barack Obama can no more disown ACORN than he could disown his own name”
kurtzz3 on September 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM
Berak ObamACORN
Christien on September 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM
Now–force a RICO investigation. I want FBI agents with guns, dogs, vests and everything to frog march these frauds down the block into the paddy wagon. I want paper shredders seized and I want this operation turned on its head.
I want the POTUS sat down on his little behind and have a REAL interview regarding this organization and the depths of his knowledge of it, his support, and the support he has received. Time for the softballs to start coming across the plate and the man child to be swinging at them.
ted c on September 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM
I’m telling you, those can’t be real tears. Real tears would melt her.
ace tomato on September 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM
Military. I left school with a new car and money in the bank.
And for people who are worried about having to fight in a war; the admin jobs have the same education benefits as the combat arms.
BadgerHawk on September 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM
Child sex traffickers hardest hit.
the_nile on September 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM
BERAKING?
Is that a typo for Breaking?
Or a new term for throwing someone under the Bus?
Romeo13 on September 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM
FIFY. Most Republicans voted for this then?
deidre on September 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM
Can anyone sort the roll call vote by race? Looking casually through the Nays I see many of the more notorious affirmative action congressmen. So did Nancy Pelosi’s Congress turn racist?
jwolf on September 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM
Baracking. Everything is Barry. And that is how it should be. Ponies for everyone.
Geochelone on September 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM
Next up in the News: Teachers Unions caught in corruption scandal involving Studend loan grafts……
mgman on September 17, 2009 at 3:05 PM
Hurricane Obama, Beraking everything in its path
faraway on September 17, 2009 at 3:05 PM
Now lets here about investigations, and the federal law enforcers start doing their jobs.
Dr Evil on September 17, 2009 at 3:05 PM
Ed, you’re missing a bunch of tangential stuff here…:
Do you not recall the Obama proposal to pay off student loans for students who commit to certain numbers of years of “National Service”? Groundwork being laid?
Next, you didn’t mention the disturbing quote from Speaker Pelosi, reported earlier today:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/pelosi_clueless_about_cash_cut_off_ZHSkPZ2Mbhr5phoqht5GHN
“I don’t even know what they passed,” Pelosi told The Post yesterday. “What did they do? They defunded it?”
RightWinged on September 17, 2009 at 3:05 PM
“Baracking” works.
How did Pelosi vote?
mankai on September 17, 2009 at 3:05 PM
No matter how much Obama tries to duck the ACORN issue by not commenting on it, it just landed at his feet.
The only one who can continue federal support of ACORN is Obama. He owns ACORN.
ace tomato on September 17, 2009 at 3:05 PM
It only counts if the President signs it.
Republicans need to run on defunding ALL libtard groups on the government dole.
Iblis on September 17, 2009 at 3:05 PM
First, Pelosi apparently didn’t vote at all from the lists I’ve seen.
Second, could someone PLEASE explain this strange vote? Let me get this straight. The vote is to nationalize all student loans with that ACORN defunding thrown in. Then we have a very partisan vote with the Repubs voting TO nationalize student loans and against ACORN and the Dems voting NOT to nationalize student loans and for ACORN.
Does this make any sense at all? Please? Anyone?
Is this two separate pieces of legislation or what? I can’t cheer for Repubs voting to nationalize student loans, and I can’t boo Dems for voting NOT to nationalize student loans…
I’m confused.
UnderstandingisPower on September 17, 2009 at 3:06 PM
Here are the nay votes. I’m sure most of you could recite them from memory by now, it is precisely who you think it would be. Best part is they are SOOOOOOO defensive about ACORN that they voted AGAINST relieving American students from excessive debt burdens from their student loans…. un-f’ing-believable:
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
We have to hammer each of those folks MERCILESSLY, and they did it all to themselves. Write each of them and ask why is protecting ACORN’s federal dole so much more important than helping American kids who are struggling to pay for college?
They obviously voted on reflex without considering exactly what they were voting AGAINST. If they thought the midterms were looking bad before…
Khorum on September 17, 2009 at 3:06 PM
Yes. But the bill was going to pass anyway, so they slapped the ACORN part on the end as a way to get something out of it.
BadgerHawk on September 17, 2009 at 3:06 PM
Cleaver, Dem, Missouri voted no. He is black.
No shock there – Cleaver is captain affirmative action.
ace tomato on September 17, 2009 at 3:06 PM
Awesome, now hit SEIU with RICO.
Lourdes on September 17, 2009 at 3:07 PM
That’s how ACORN lures the children..
the_nile on September 17, 2009 at 3:07 PM
You’ll never work at the NY Times.
mankai on September 17, 2009 at 3:07 PM
It’s worth pointing out that this amendment is attached to a different bill than the one that the Senate voted on.
This means that the Senate will yet have to vote on this bill, and the House will have to yet vote on the Senate bill.
And then there’s potential Conference Committees, where either or both of these amendments could conveniently disappear.
And then the President would have to sign one or both of these bills as well.
We’re a long way from calling this a success.
Chris of Rights on September 17, 2009 at 3:07 PM
They aren’t…T-800′s can’t cry.
PBoilermaker on September 17, 2009 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know that there is any point in breaking it down by race though. Half those yokels voted on the bill without reading it. You know its true
ace tomato on September 17, 2009 at 3:07 PM
He’s got a righteous wind at his back. Remember.
Geochelone on September 17, 2009 at 3:08 PM
Hey look, Ed’s a racist. That’s how Maureen Dowd read it, anyway.
Cicero43 on September 17, 2009 at 3:08 PM
ayrab on September 17, 2009 at 3:02 PM
mankai on September 17, 2009 at 3:05 PM
The Speaker customarily doesn’t vote unless it’s close or highly controversial.
CK MacLeod on September 17, 2009 at 3:08 PM
Pelosi voted for the ban?
mankai on September 17, 2009 at 3:08 PM
The Pelosi house would vote for nationalizing all industries 253-171.
pedestrian on September 17, 2009 at 3:08 PM
RIGHT ON!
ONWARD TO THE SEIU!
rabidamerican on September 17, 2009 at 3:08 PM
Ed,
Please change it back to “Beraking.” Sometimes the error itself is better than the correction. It has all the hallmarks of a classic HotAir-ism.
Christien on September 17, 2009 at 3:08 PM
No funds for ACORN, meaning SOROS will sponsor it.
cubachi on September 17, 2009 at 3:09 PM
WOW!
ps. get over the spelling thing,people.
Ed is just as stunned as I am.
katy the mean old lady on September 17, 2009 at 3:09 PM
I think we can smell his wind.
ace tomato on September 17, 2009 at 3:09 PM
lol yes
pleze more beraking plz
blatantblue on September 17, 2009 at 3:09 PM
Don’t you know Soros is sitting in some dark corner right now, head in hands, thinking “Damn, this commie revolution is costing me a fortune”.
silenced majority on September 17, 2009 at 3:09 PM
This is NOT good news.
The Republican need to make a statement that passage of the communization of the Student Loan program was unstoppable – and the only way to defund ACORN was to support it.
HondaV65 on September 17, 2009 at 3:09 PM
I wonder now that they have nationalized student loans will they tackle the outrageous growth in tuition costs at college?
They complain about the cost of health care, but tuition at the school that I went to has increased 400% in 15 years. That’s way more than health care. And the year that pays for is not any longer, nor is the information that is taught any different for that absurd and outrageous increase.
The reason for the increase is easy loans. Cut the loans and people will be able to afford lower tuition rates.
ThackerAgency on September 17, 2009 at 3:09 PM
The student loans thing is all about Obama getting complete control of the financing of college so that he can force everyone into MANDATORY “service” in his indoctrination programs in exchange for “free” college education.
Beck talked about this weeks ago.
wildcat84 on September 17, 2009 at 3:10 PM
I’m glad my degree is already hanging on a wall.
PBoilermaker on September 17, 2009 at 3:10 PM
If the RNC were smart, which recent history has shown them not, they would put the word REPEAL at the head of their platform for 2010 and 2012.
REPEAL CAP & TAX
REPEAL STIMULUS
REPEAL HEALTH CARE
REPEAL STUDENT LOAN NATIONALIZATION
REPEAL ANY POLICY PRECEDENT DUMBO ENACTS.
J.J. Sefton on September 17, 2009 at 3:10 PM
Oh wow, I don’t know how to feel about this. With every fiber of my being I want ACORN crushed, but I deeply, deeply distrust this student loan bill.
perries on September 17, 2009 at 3:10 PM
Leave it to the liberals to find a way to socialize this country further while at the same time trying to look good by cutting ACORN out of their next election cycle.
Ain’t gonna work, Dems are going down. They’re exposing themselves worse than a raincoat clad pervert in central park.
Spiritk9 on September 17, 2009 at 3:11 PM
Allahpundit to the rescue! Thanks, AP.
Ed Morrissey on September 17, 2009 at 3:11 PM
My congressional representative is among the 75 (Niki Tsongas).
I sent her a very angry letter and fax.
I doubt she, like Charlie Gibson, has even heard of ACORN.
She just does what Pelosi tells her to do…
sultanp on September 17, 2009 at 3:11 PM
How did Nancy Pelosi Vote?
Dr Evil on September 17, 2009 at 3:11 PM
Nah she didn’t vote at all according to the official results:
http://biggovernment.com/2009/09/17/final-vote-results-for-roll-call/
Looks like she was too busy shedding crocodile tears for the cameras to plunk down any capital on ACORN’s behalf.
Khorum on September 17, 2009 at 3:11 PM
Washington Post hasn’t picked that story up yet. I guess they can’t afford to send reporters to… Washington.
hawksruleva on September 17, 2009 at 3:11 PM
this could backfire, by Nationalizing Student Loans in same bill it will draw more attention to the ACORN scandal by extension
jp on September 17, 2009 at 3:12 PM
The pathetic congresscritter Filner who represents the district where the San Diego sting took place voted AGAINST defunding ACORN. He obviously has no problem with child trafficking and prostitution.
oceansidecon on September 17, 2009 at 3:12 PM
degree or not. If you haven’t paid off your loan…. you are now serving the One!
upinak on September 17, 2009 at 3:13 PM
Ed, you gutless fool. You gave in to the spelling nazis.
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faraway on September 17, 2009 at 3:13 PM
Do you folks realize this bill was a 100% take over of student loans???
lloyd3iii on September 17, 2009 at 3:13 PM
A wise move, though typical of the entrenched, selfish, political class we’ve been burdened with.
hawksruleva on September 17, 2009 at 3:13 PM
The important part is to defund the criminal enterprise ACORN. Next is to show the true nature of at least some Democrats as supporters of child prostitution.
Afterwards we can work on the student loan nonsense. By taking student loans out of the hands of the private sector, this administration is further lowering the employment rate for private businesses.
rbj on September 17, 2009 at 3:13 PM
I guess CNN, CBS, ABC and NBC have to now run with the story. They can explain why they left it to Fox for a week.
Mr. Joe on September 17, 2009 at 3:13 PM
When can we start to confiscate their assets?
fourdeucer on September 17, 2009 at 3:13 PM
If the Senate votes against the Student Loan bill, will this amendment stand? BTW, the senate amendment was in a different bill, so how are they going to club them together?
promachus on September 17, 2009 at 3:14 PM
Hoyer voted yay looks like he knows which way the political winds are blowing.
Dr Evil on September 17, 2009 at 3:14 PM
This calls for some music.
Berak Down
Christien on September 17, 2009 at 3:14 PM
Why is Pelosi not on the roll call?
Joe Caps on September 17, 2009 at 3:15 PM
Look who took a page out of BHO’s book and voted “present”:
Hastings (FL) & Watt
heh.
mankai on September 17, 2009 at 3:15 PM
Anyone who votes for funding ACORN should be investigated.
RE: loans, I answered the phone at my daughter’s house and it was a message from the Obama Administration wanting to help them with their (student) loans. Why? They make over a quarter million but they did vote for him, probably several times. My son-in-law could vote in his home state and California also sent him an absentee ballot.
Ed, thanks so much. I feel much better about all my spelling and grammar errors.
HellCat on September 17, 2009 at 3:15 PM
How many from the black caucus voted in unison?
Schadenfreude on September 17, 2009 at 3:16 PM
She said that this country is great ’cause people can say what they believe.
Yeah, right. Just ask Joe Wilson.
davidk on September 17, 2009 at 3:16 PM
Momentum indeed.
SouthernGent on September 17, 2009 at 3:16 PM
Look at it this way. The student loan thing probably can be undone, but it can’t be if the donks stay in power. ACORN helps them stay in power. Remove the election fraud perpetrated by ACORN and the table tilt starts to flatten.
a capella on September 17, 2009 at 3:17 PM
Because she was in the bathroom, wringing her pantyhose.
Schadenfreude on September 17, 2009 at 3:17 PM
How many of the 75 “no” votes were part of the Congressional Black Caucus?
taney71 on September 17, 2009 at 3:17 PM
Harman voted yay Harman should have been Speaker of the House. I don’t think we would be where we are now if she was Speaker, and not San Fran Nan.
Dr Evil on September 17, 2009 at 3:17 PM
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