On March 29, the Senate tabled, 53-43, another Vitter amendment to prohibit ACORN and any organization sharing premises or resources with it from receiving money authorized under national service legislation (PL 111-13). Fifty-one Democrats and the two independents voted to kill the Vitter move.
Vitter and Richard C. Shelby, R-Ala., also held up the nomination of Robert M. Groves as Census Bureau director in the spring in part because of the Republicans’ concern that Groves would not commit to barring ACORN from helping to recruit census-takers.
Until recently, it was Vitter–not Johanns–who took the lead in pressing the case against ACORN in the Senate. Next year, Vitter faces a tough re-election bid after he was embroiled in sex scandal when his phone number was found in records of a Washington, D.C., escort service that was accused of engaging in prostitution.

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