WASHINGTON. D.C. – Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today made a formal joint request that various Offices of Inspectors General probe recent allegations concerning the activities of ACORN, a community advocacy organization.
Senator Collins and Rep. Issa asked that the Inspectors General for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Small Business Administration (SBA), and the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), “review grants, contracts, entitlements and other forms of assistance to ACORN and its affiliates.”