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General News    H4'ed 10/4/11

GOP Rep. Denounces Norquist And His No New Taxes Pledge

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Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) unleashed a verbal fusillade on Anti-Tax Guru Grover Norquist Tuesday, calling him out as the main political force behind Washington gridlock.

Wolf took the House floor to lambaste Norquist's pledge, a promise not to raise taxes that all but six Republicans in Congress have signed, accusing him of using it to advance other pet issues that most Republicans -- if not most voters -- do not support.

In addition, Wolf excoriated Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, for his associations with "unsavory people and groups out of the mainstream."
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