johanns: this is such an important issue. this is an issue that people all across the country are watching the senate floor. therefore, madam president, i feel very strongly that if there was ever an opportunity for senators to come to the floor and cast a vote in a roll call fashion, this is israelily one to make a very strong -- this is really one to make a very strong statement once again about acorn not receiving this funding. i appreciate the offer of the senator from california, but i -- i just must insist, because of the nature of what we're dealing with, the claims of alleged wrongdoing, the history of wrongdoing with employees from this organization, the videotapes, the potential to access the funding, that we need a roll call vote on this issue. mrs. feinstein: if i may, through the chair, to the senator -- senator, to the best our knowledge, there is no funding in this bill for acorn, and the staff is looking, has found no funding in the bill for acorn. therefore, there's a redundancy. this is going to have to be d

johanns: i ask that the quorum be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. johanns: madam president, i ask for the yeas and nays on the pending amendment, and i yield back all time. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators wishing to vote or change your vote? if not, on this vote the yeas are 83, and the nays are seven. the amendment is agreed to. a senator: move to reconsider. move to lay on the table. the presiding officer: without objection. so ruled. the senate will be in order. mrs. murray: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: madam president, for the information of our colleagues, my counterpart, senator bond and i, have been on the floor thursday afternoon, thursday evening, friday, and this afternoon into this evening today. we are waiting for members to bring their amendments to the floor. for the information of all senators, there will not be votes

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senator johanns? >> mr. chairman, thank you. let them just express my appreciation for the chairman and the ranking member following up on is. i think it's enormously important. since this story broke, we've all had an opportunity, i'm sure, to watch the victims interviewed and the tragic stories i mean, just make you want to weep for them. people who are in their senior years who just have no chance of making this money back. i mean, they are not going to live long enough. i read your report and i reach the obvious conclusion. the federal government plea it. -- blew it. at's their remedy? where do they go from here? >> yeah, i don't know. there are, i guess, legal issues about what victims can do. through the course of our investigation we met victims as well. they weren't as, you know, senator dodd said, they weren't real rich people. they weren't people who lost $100 million and have $100 million left. you know, i talked to people who said for them december 11th was their 9/11. december 11th was like september 11 for them. th

senator mike johanns of nebraska, who has introduced an even stronger anti-acorn bill points to what he calls surprising bipartisan support. >> to me, that's enormously encouraging and should cause the white house, the president of the united states to say look, i understand there is bipartisan support here. i'm going to sign the legislation. >> when asked if the president has objections to the latest congressional action, press secretary robert gibbs only offered a new comment on the undercover videos. >> the president chairs the outrage of what -- the president shares the outrage of what he saw on the tape. i would leave it at that. >> it is unclear how much taxpayer money for acorn is in the pipeline right now, but until a bill becomes law, which could take several months, that money will keep on flowing. in washington, steve centanni, fox news. bret: we'll have more on the acorn story this weekend. acorn's c.e.o., bertha lewis and california republican congressman darryl issa will be chris wallace's guests on "fox news sunday." well, acorn and healthcare are just two of the subje

mike johanns has an amendment slamming a.c.o.r.n. and the amendments passed overwhelmingly. i myself, peppered, prepared and executed what was a very confrontational interview with the ceo of a.c.o.r.n., where bertha lewis clearly took issue with some of the questions i asked and responded in kind. >> the video is still there and we still see these people doing and saying these things, so you could say anything you want to say about your attackers. but in the end, the evidence is what's hurting the credibility of your conversation. how do you respond to that? >> well, i'll repeat it again in case you didn't understand me the first time. >> okay. >> these people were terminated, we took immediate action, regardless, it is unacceptable and never met our professional standards. >> all right, it's hard for me as a journalist to not press her after seeing the obvious, obvious lapses of judgment and ethics by her workers caught on camera, telling a filmmaker posing as a pimp how to hide his money from the government. and the kicks to the ahead have come in a steady stream. yesterd

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johanns. mr. johanns: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from nebraska. mr. johanns: madam president, this morning i presented the argument on this amendment -- could i have order in the senate? the presiding officer: please can we have order in the senate. mr. johanns: madam president, this morning i presented argument on this amendment on the senate floor. the question was raised: well, we don't think there's money that comes out of this budget relative to this organization acorn. so, i went back to the office, and i did some research. this is a bill that controls hundreds of grant programs. and after studying that, it appears that i was right. acorn gets money out of this appropriation. moments ago my staff brought me information that would suggest acorn has in fact received funding. the e.p.a. is a part of this bill. if you go to this bill at page 182, you will see the e.p.a. is there. we went to the e.p.a. web site, and here's what the web site says, referencing a grant program, that it's a collaboration of nonprofit organization led by ellis hamilton --