http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/22/whoops-anti-acorn-bill-ro_n_294949.html
Over the Anti-Acorn fervor sweeping the nation after a few people got rolled by a cartoon pimp, evidently, Republican legislators were quick to draw up a bill that would withdraw federal funding from "any organization" that has been charged with breaking federal or state election laws, lobbying disclosure laws, campaign finance laws or filing fraudulent paperwork with any federal or state agency. The bill passed with strong bipartisan support, without either party realizing that the broad language of this bill could, in essence, kill the entire military industrial complex, as several of the top manufacturers of military equipment have several charges of fraud among them.
This incident details the importance of having more detailed language in legislation. If this law is found to be constitutional, then in their witchhunt of ACORN the Republicans may have found another comically inept way of botching things.
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