ACORN

I, along with 28 other members of the House Financial Services Committee, have sent a letter to the Committee's Chairman Barney Frank, urging him to invite former executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to testify at the scheduled hearing on October 21 on restructuring and reform of the financial system.

I've also requested hearings on alleged abuses by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), which receives significant funding from Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development and has made many headlines in recent weeks for alleged election fraud.

Preserving the integrity of our election process is critical to the foundations of our democracy.  But sadly, groups like ACORN appear to be engaging in a systematic attempt to deny this basic right to millions of legitimate American voters. Charges of wrong-doing have even cropped up in my home state of Missouri, where hundreds of highly-suspect voter registration forms have been submitted in Kansas City alone.