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HERE TO REPORT THAT ALL BUT ONE
INDIANA REPUBLICAN ON CAPITOL
HILL HAS TAKEN IT.
Reporter: AND ERIC THAT LONE
EXCEPTION IS OUTGOING SENATOR
*** LUGAR.
MORE ON HIM IN A MINUTE.
FIRST, HERE'S THE PLEDGE TO WORK
AGAINST TAX HIKES THAT COMES
FROM THE AMERICANS FOR TAX
REFORM AND ITS LEADER, GROVER
NORQUIST.
GROVER NORQUIST WAS IN INDIANA
EARLY THEY ARE YEAR CAMPAIGNING
FOR CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE
DAVID MACINTOSH, AN UNSUCCESSFUL
REPUBLICAN WHO SIGNED THE
PLEDGE.
NOW, NORQUIST IS ON A BIGGER
STAGE, TRYING TO HOLD OTHERS TO
THE PLEDGE.
NO PLEDGE TAKER HAS VOTED FOR
A TAX INCREASE.
THEY HAVE HAD SOME PEOPLE
DISCUSSING IMPURE THOUGHTS ON
NATIONAL TELEVISION.
Reporter: EVERY INDIANA
REPUBLICAN IN THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES HAS SIGNED THE
PLEDGE.
THEY ARE LARRY BUCHON, DAN
BURDEN, MIKE PENCE, TODD ROKITA,
MARLON STUTZMAN AND TODD YOUNG.
ON A VIDEO ON HIS WEBSITE ROKITA
PUTS OUT A WARNING.
ALLOWING CURRENT TAX RATES TO
EXPIRE WILL HIT AMERICANS AT AN
ALL INCOME LEVELS.
WE SIMPLY CANNOT LET THAT
HAPPEN.
Reporter: TODD YOUNG TOLD
24-HOUR NEWS 8 THAT
COMPREHENSIVE TAX REFORM OUGHT
TO BE PART OF A FISCAL-CLIFF
PACKAGE, AND THAT EVERYTHING
SHOULD BE ON THE TABLE AS FAR AS
THAT GOES.
BURTON, ON THE OTHER HAND, SAYS
HE WON'T VOTE FOR A TAX HIKE.
THIS SPEECH SON HIS WEBSITE.
WE'VE GOT OUT OF CONTROL
SPENDING, WE'VE GOT TO CUT
SPENDING, WE'VE GOT TO LOOK AT
THE ENTIMEOUTMENTS AND THE RULES
AND REGULATION THAT IS WE HAVE
LIVE TO BY.
Reporter: SENATOR DAN COATS
HAS SIGNED THE PLEDGE.
HE IS WILLING TO CONSIDER TAX
HIKES TO PREVENT THE MASSIVE TAX
HIKE FROM THE FISCAL CLIFF, IF
THEY ARE OFFSET BY SPENDING
REFORMS.
AND THAT'S NOT WHAT GROVER
NORQUIST WANTS TO HEAR.
NOW BACK TO *** LUGAR.
HE'S ONE OF SEVEN REPUBLICAN
SENATORS WHO NEVER SIGNED THE
PLEDGE.
HIS SPOKESMAN NOTES THAT OTHERS
ARE NOW BACKING AWAY FROM THE
PLEDGE AND SAYS LUGAR IS WILLING
TO SUPPORT A REASONABLE DEAL
THAT INCLUDES TAX HIKES TO