The tea party isn’t dead. It’s just looking down ballot. While fiscal conservatives remain split over the GOP presidential candidates, grassroots activists are coalescing around a stellar slate of limited-government candidates looking to reinforce and reenergize the right in Washington.
U.S. highway and bridge projects would be financed by tax changes including closing loopholes, forcing early distribution of inherited IRAs and reallocating other tariffs under legislation before a Senate panel today.
Following House approval of the measure on Friday, the Senate is set to vote today on legislation that would allow U.S. airports to replace TSA workers with screeners from private companies, a move that could spell the beginning of the end for the highly unpopular federal agency’s role in airport security.
By Josiah Ryan, The Hill Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) opened the Senate after more than a month of recess on Monday by chastising Tea Party Republicans for obstructionist tactics they employed last year. “Influenced by these Tea Party voices, Republicans forced us to waste months on routine legislation that nearly shut down our [...]
Tea Party organizations that championed the congressional upset victories of Michele Bachmann in Minnesota, Scott Brown in Massachusetts and Marco Rubio in Florida now have their eyes – and their pocketbooks – aimed at Texas.
A bill to stop “insider trading” in Congress is gaining momentum with two new Senate supporters.
The Virginia Tea Party Alliance’s political action committee will begin airing a TV ad Monday targeting Senate Democratic candidates in vote-rich Northern Virginia.
WASHINGTON – Republican leaders in the House of Representatives and the Senate appointed six conservative lawmakers Wednesday to the so-called supercommittee that’s charged with finding ways to trim the federal deficit by more than $1 trillion by year’s end.
Capping a week of political bickering and parliamentary delays, the House joined the Senate on Thursday to pass a four-year extension of key provisions of the Patriot Act that was set to expire at midnight.
Senators squared off with Obama administration officials Monday about plans to give the president emergency powers to protect vital U.S. electronic networks from attacks by hackers, cyberterrorists and foreign governments.
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