Posted on 06/04/2009 5:57:37 PM PDT by markomalley
Washington, D.C. - June 4, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) —U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann (R-MN) today introduced the Taxpayer Protection and Anti-Fraud Act, which would prohibit any organization that has been indicted for violations of state or federal election laws from accessing taxpayer dollars through Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs.
“This is about how Congress spends the people’s money and about setting the bar high. Accessing federal funding is a privilege, not a right, and it must be earned,” said Bachmann. “Congress should not allow groups, such as ACORN which has been repeatedly investigated and indicted for voter registration fraud, to receive taxpayer dollars. You can’t violate the public trust with one hand and take the taxpayers’ money with the other.”
House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH), an original cosponsor of Bachmann’s bill, said, “ACORN played a key role in the financial meltdown that has cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars, and is reportedly under federal investigation for allegations of voter fraud. It is an outrage that this organization continues to receive taxpayer dollars. Immediate action is necessary to ensure that no additional tax dollars are directed to ACORN, or any organization that is under investigation for this type of crime. I’d like to thank Rep. Bachmann for introducing a bill to make that happen, and I’m proud to support it.”
The House recently considered the Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act (H.R. 1728), which originally included the same taxpayer protection language. This commonsense language was gutted at the behest of Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) on the same week that 39 charges of voter registration fraud were filed in Nevada against ACORN and two of its former employees and seven employees of ACORN were charged with forgery and election law violations in Pennsylvania. The Frank Amendment gave a pass to groups like ACORN and allowed them to continue to access millions of taxpayer dollars while simultaneously appearing in courts across the country about their violations of the law and the public trust.
“Easy access to taxpayer dollars has allowed ACORN to fund their political and questionable activities for years. We have a fiduciary duty to the taxpayers to close the door to federal funding on groups that have violated the public trust like this,” said Bachmann.
I’ll write to my rep but he’s a criminal socialist so I don’t have much hope.
How about a bill cutting off federal $$ to all these worthless organizations, indicted or not.
Michele’s got more balls than all the men in Congress.
She is wonderful
Bachmann is in overdrive!
Excellent!!! Thanks Michelle.
I really respect Michelle Bachman. When Rush was talking about whose brain he would choose if he got to pick one other than his own, it got me to thinking. I decided that I would like to have Michelle Bachman’s brain and demeanor. Laura Ingraham came in second. Way to go Michelle!!!!
I gotta find a way to vote in her district......
I don’t commend her actions, because the way she did this insures only a “moral victory”, which means being thoroughly defeated, but feeling good about it.
Had she been serious, she should have looked for a unique flaw in ACORN’s armor, then insert a rider into a bill that would attract little or no interest at the time, and thus pass, but slowly and gradually put the screws to ACORN.
This is the difference between a “moral victory” and a “real victory”. Put in real terms, al-Qaeda and the Taliban have a LOT of “moral victories”, for all the good it does them. Which is nothing, and just means they are losers.
And it dies in hours....
“U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann (R-MN) today introduced the Taxpayer Protection and Anti-Fraud Act, which would prohibit any organization that has been indicted for violations of state or federal election laws from accessing taxpayer dollars through Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs.”
Why is HUD the only department listed? Shouldn’t this apply to all Federal tax dollars?
Got to love her!!!
“Had she been serious, she should have looked for a unique flaw in ACORN’s armor, then insert a rider into a bill that would attract little or no interest at the time, and thus pass, but slowly and gradually put the screws to ACORN.”
Unfortunately, for “tranparent,” “open” government, I think this is correct. Maybe the problem with conservatives is they are honest, straight-forward people.
Honest and straightforward have always been strange concepts to government of any kind. In one ancient parliament, any legislator who introduced a bill had to wear a noose around his neck, and if his proposed law failed, he was strangled. They went something like 200 years without a new law.
“...200 years without enacting new legilastion...”
Who can we get to propose that?
haha
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