Norquist’s Tax Pledge Draws Fewer Freshmen: BGOV Barometer
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Fewer Republican freshmen in Congress are joining the ranks of anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist by signing his 26-year-old no-new-taxes pledge.
The BGOV Barometer shows that 26 out of 38 Republicans who will be freshman members of the House or Senate in January have signed the anti-tax pledge, compared with 96 out of 99 in the group that started in the 112th Congress in January 2011. So far, 24 of 35 Republicans newly elected to the House have signed, along with two of the party’s three new senators in the incoming 113th Congress.