Such a group doesn’t really exist, of course (well, they haven’t incorporated, the last time I checked), but you could come up with your own membership list pretty easily. Take every Democrat in the U.S. House and Senate, remove the names on this “whip list” put together by The Hill newspaper of Democrats who formally have stated they would support extending all of the Bush-era tax cuts, and you’d have Democrats who are supporting a tax increase at the end of 2010.
As of now, of the 35 lawmakers on the list (31 House members, four senators), the only member of the state’s congressional delegation who has said he’d back extending all the tax cuts is 7th District Rep. Mike McIntyre.
All the others ? Reps. G.K. Butterfield (1st); Bob Etheridge (2nd); David Price (4th); Larry Kissell (8th); Heath Shuler (11th); Brad Miller (13th); and Sen. Kay Hagan ? have been silent or said some of the tax cuts should expire.
We’ll update the list regularly.
