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A BILL
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.


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `Defund ACORN Act'.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITIONS ON FEDERAL FUNDS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN INDICTED ORGANIZATIONS.

(a) Prohibitions- With respect to any covered organization, the following prohibitions apply:

(1) No Federal contract, grant, cooperative agreement, or any other form of agreement (including a memorandum of understanding) may be awarded to or entered into with the organization.

(2) No Federal funds in any other form may be provided to the organization.

(3) No Federal employee or contractor may promote in any way (including recommending to a person or referring to a person for any purpose) the organization.

(b) Covered Organization- In this section, the term `covered organization' means any of the following:

(1) Any organization that has been indicted for a violation under any Federal or State law governing the financing of a campaign for election for public office or any law governing the administration of an election for public office, including a law relating to voter registration.

(2) Any organization that had its State corporate charter terminated due to its failure to comply with Federal or State lobbying disclosure requirements.

(3) Any organization that has filed a fraudulent form with any Federal or State regulatory agency.

(4) Any organization that--

(A) employs any applicable individual, in a permanent or temporary capacity;

(B) has under contract or retains any applicable individual; or

(C) has any applicable individual acting on the organization's behalf or with the express or apparent authority of the organization.

(c) Additional Definitions- In this section:

(1) The term `organization' includes the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (in this subsection referred to as `ACORN') and any ACORN-related affiliate.

(2) The term `ACORN-related affiliate' means any of the following:

(A) Any State chapter of ACORN registered with the Secretary of State's office in that State.

(B) Any organization that shares directors, employees, or independent contractors with ACORN.

(C) Any organization that has a financial stake in ACORN.

(D) Any organization whose finances, whether federally funded, donor-funded, or raised through organizational goods and services, are shared or controlled by ACORN.

(3) The term `applicable individual' means an individual who has been indicted for a violation under Federal or State law relating to an election for Federal or State office.

(d) Revision of Federal Acquisition Regulation- The Federal Acquisition Regulation shall be revised to carry out the provisions of this Act relating to contracts.

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ORIGINAL: kccuckoldmist

It is a political game. He either expects the Democrats to vote it down and therefore the Republicans can vote for it and thereofre campaign on it which I doubt or more then likely he knows the proposed bill will die and he can just campaign himself on the fact he propsoed such a thing.

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

So the question is:
Is John Boehner too stupid to understand what his own bill would do or is he so incompetent that he never had a serious lawyer look over the bill or is he a liberal who has been biding his time till he could achieve a leadership position in the GOP and achieve in one strike what most of us though was impossible?