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Posted on 09/22/2009 6:00:22 PM PDT by khnyny
RUSH: Now, we all know that yesterday the House of Representatives, in voting to eliminate all private sector student loans and turn that into a totally government-run program, we were also told that Darrell Issa slipped in a bill there that would defund ACORN and that the house overwhelmingly voted for that. Ah, ah, ah, ahhh! Representative Virginia Foxx also with WPTF radio, the Bill LuMaye Show, asked her a question. "Do we at some point defund them entirely where both the Senate and the House come together and say, 'No more federal tax dollars'?"
FOXX: They'll let something like this fly because they know this bill has passed the House. It will go to the Senate. The Senate will modify the bill, and then it will have to go to conference -- and what they do is they just drop that out when they debate the compromise. And they'll just drop it out at that point and you can't amend a conference report. So the rules are that you have an up-or-down vote on the conference report and you can't amend anything. So they play this trick all the time. They'll vote on something controversial and say, "That's no problem. We vote on it," and then when they get behind closed doors in conference they just pull it out.
RUSH: So that's the trick. They knew they were going to pull it out in the Senate in the conference report. Oh, go in there and let the country think that they've defunded ACORN when they haven't -- and that's Virginia Foxx, a congresswoman explaining how it's done.
Virginia Foxx is speaking about this tactic on CSPAN right now.
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3571/actions_votes
H.R.3571 - Defund ACORN Act
To prohibit the Federal Government from awarding contracts, grants, or other agreements to, providing any other Federal funds to, or engaging in activities that promote certain indicted organizations.
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