Political Quotes

“This is the amendment that prohibits any of the funds made available in this act to go to these associations that are in the list of this amendment. We would like to have been able to just simply define ACORN and their affiliates, but because the definition of ``affiliates'' created some problems, we had to go with the actual list of the affiliates that has been compiled in large part by the Government Oversight Committee and in another part by the contributions of the astute media that has done some research on this. This is similar to the effect of the language that we passed in previous Congresses under the Democrat majority. We have seen what ACORN has done and attempted to do to undermine the legitimate election process in the United States. The things that we saw with the video and the film that were going on inside the offices of ACORN, I believe, and there is under-oath testimony before this Congress of at least one ACORN, former ACORN employee, who testified that she believed that what we saw in the film that came forward on YouTube and was posted in other media outlets actually reflected the culture inside the ACORN offices and was reflective of their offices around the country. And we saw that in five or six offices around the country. Therefore, this Congress, we must not forget that our Constitution's foundation is set upon legitimate elections; and to subsidize the people that are in the business of undermining it would be the wrong thing to do.…”