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House Blocks ACORN Funding

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Will cut off all federal dollars.

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The ACORN has fallen from the tree: The House voted 345 to 75 to cut off all federal funding to ACORN, the community organization that has recently come under fire after a series of controversial videos exposed some of its employees giving career advice to a journalist posing as a pimp. The majority of Democrats joined Republicans in voting to defund the group. The Senate also voted to defund ACORN this week.

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