At her Capitol Hill press conference today, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said of the growing ACORN scandal that "a few individuals at ACORN did what I think is--what would be the appropriate word? Some have said despicable, but in any event totally unacceptable and in my view inexcusable." Later she repeated that "a few people have embarrassed ACORN," observing that ACORN was conducting its own review of the matter. "We have to have our own scrutiny," she said. Any decision to keep language (passed 83 to 7 by the Senate) in the final bill that would strip HUD and Transportation funding from ACORN will be up to the conference committee, she said.

As Pelosi ducked into an elevator after the presser, I asked her if she would allow a vote on separate House bill to strip all funding from ACORN. She did not reply.

"We haven't seen the bill" to strip all funding from ACORN, Pelosi spokesman Nadeam Elshami told me after the elevator doors closed. "When we see the bill we can start to talk about that."