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Related: About this forum"Norquist tax pledge takes election hit" at the Hill
Norquist tax pledge takes election hitby Russell Berman at the Hill
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/267467-norquist-pledge-takes-election-hit-
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Republicans might have held the House, but Grover Norquists majority in Congress is all but gone.
Fewer incoming members of the House and Senate have signed the pledge against tax increases run by Norquists Americans for Tax Reform, in a reflection not only of the seats that Democrats gained but of the success theyve enjoyed in vilifying Norquist.
About a dozen newly elected House Republicans refused to sign the anti-tax pledge during their campaigns, and another handful of returning Republicans have disavowed their allegiance to the written commitment.
With Democrats picking up seven or eight seats, that means the pledge guides fewer than the 218 members needed for a majority. In the Senate, where Republicans lost two seats, just 39 members of the chamber are pledge-signers, according to the groups records. That is a drop from 238 members of the House and 41 senators who committed to the pledge at the start of the 112th Congress.
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"Norquist tax pledge takes election hit" at the Hill (Original Post)
applegrove
Nov 2012
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DonViejo
(60,536 posts)1. I hope we ARE seeing the end of Norquist's reign...
it's been a long time coming. Here's a story that dove tails with your OP nicely, I think:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251247226
applegrove
(118,677 posts)2. Thanks.
craigmatic
(4,510 posts)3. Good nobody elected that prick anyway. Why does he get to decide tax policy?
The repubs who signed that pledge were stupid for doing it in the first place. You're an elected representative act like you have some guts.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)4. +1 nt