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WASHINGTON - A resurgent conservative activist community that last month zeroed in on U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter has turned its ire to Democratic colleague Bob Casey over the freshman senator's vote against blocking federal funding for the community organizing group ACORN. Casey's vote Monday put him at odds with all but six of his Senate colleagues, who approved an amendment to the Department of Housing and Urban Development's 2010 spending bill to bar federal money for the organization next year. The vote came after videos surfaced showing workers in multiple offices giving tax advice to a couple posing as a...

WASHINGTON - A resurgent conservative activist community that last month zeroed in on U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter has turned its ire to Democratic colleague Bob Casey over the freshman senator's vote against blocking federal funding for the community organizing group ACORN. Casey's vote Monday put him at odds with all but six of his Senate colleagues, who approved an amendment to the Department of Housing and Urban Development's 2010 spending bill to bar federal money for the organization next year. The vote came after videos surfaced showing workers in multiple offices giving tax advice to a couple posing as a...

Sen. Bob Casey, among only seven senators on Monday who opposed a block in housing funding to the community group ACORN, said he'll follow suit on votes today designed to bar the organization from other sources of federal money. Sen. Mike Johannsof Nebraska will bring amendments to the floor today that would ban ACORN from getting federal money from the Department of the Interior, environment and other related agencies. None of those agencies currently provide ACORN funding, but Johanns wants to ensure they don't in the future. Casey characterized the measures as political moves at a time the Congress is...