It puts them in a very precarious position. They know when they take the pledge that it's not in the public's interest.
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The advantage to party leaders is it gives them a way to enforce discipline in the House and the Senate that leaders in the past didn't have.Ted Arrington
It gives you access to Republican interest-group money that you don't have if you don't take the pledge.
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