ACORN Defunded Until October 31st. Unless......

On October 1st Congress had failed to pass the annual appropriations bills which fund all government programs for the new fiscal year, so the President signed a Continuing Resolution to allow government programs to continue their current spending for one month. As part of this 30-day resolution ACORN was denied funds.

By November 1, 2009 Congress must pass twelve appropriations bills for the new fiscal year or pass another Continuing Resolution (CR) to keep government programs running at their current spending levels. All twelve appropriation bills and a CR must include the same language as the October 1, 2009 CR that denied ACORN funds in Section 163.
Unless language is identical to that in Sec. 163. ACORN will be eligible for funding again.

There are 12 appropriations bills, each funding different government agencies and programs. Adding the prohibition language to the Transportation funding bill doesn't stop ACORN from accessing Housing funds. Even if Congress added the specified language to each of the twelve appropriations bills it would expire in one year, September 30, 2010.

The only way to ensure that ACORN is barred from federal funds across the board and for more than a brief time is for the White House to suspend and bar ACORN from federal funds. It doesn't take an act of Congress.