{"id":699480,"date":"2010-03-24T10:34:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T14:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=80213"},"modified":"2010-03-24T10:34:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T14:34:41","slug":"acorn-folding-but-not-forgotten-by-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/699480","title":{"rendered":"ACORN Folding but Not Forgotten by Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ACORN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0310\/Acorn_folds.html?showall\" >might be folding<\/a>, but that&#8217;s not enough to convince Sen. David Vitter that the anti-poverty group still won&#8217;t find ways to rig the next election. The Louisiana Republican has filed an amendment to the health reconciliation bill &#8212; which is moving through the Senate this week &#8212; to prohibit federal funding to ACORN.<\/p>\n<p>If that sounds familiar, it&#8217;s because Vitter helped <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/65048\/senators-slog-while-unemployed-suffer\" >stall<\/a> an unemployment insurance bill last fall <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/64513\/expanded-unemployment-benefits-stalled-by-gop-acorn-immigration-amendments\" >with a similar ACORN amendment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Votes on the long list of amendments filed to the reconciliation bill are expected to come later this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACORN might be folding, but that&#8217;s not enough to convince Sen. David Vitter that the anti-poverty group still won&#8217;t find ways to rig the next election. The Louisiana Republican has filed an amendment to the health reconciliation bill &#8212; which is moving through the Senate this week &#8212; to prohibit federal funding to ACORN. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2VXW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}