Paul Wants Bicameral Tea Party Caucus
Fox News reports:
The Tea Party movement has earned a sizeable voice in Congress after two tumultuous years in the making, and it's moving quickly to carve out a foothold in span style="color: blue;">Washington< before the next session begins in January.
Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann, a Tea Party darling who moved to create a House caucus for the movement over the summer, is planning to run for a top-ranking leadership position, according to a colleague. Rand Paul, the winner of the Kentucky Senate contest, said Wednesday that he wants to form a bicameral Tea Party caucus.
The developments signal that the Tea Party's congressional span style="color: blue;">stewards< are looking to expand the movement's reach as soon as possible, though it's unclear whether the contingent will complement or combat the Republican Party as a whole.
While some party leaders on both sides of the aisle said they would welcome and work with the new class of lawmakers, Tea Party-aligned Sen. Jim DeMint on Wednesday suggested the incoming members wage a battle against the party infrastructure. But the Tea Party candidates as well as the span style="color: blue;">veteran< GOP legislators were all talking about the same thing in the wake of their historic gains in the midterm elections -- cutting spending, cutting government and spurring economic growth.
