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The 60-member Tea Party Caucus — balked at GOP House Speaker John Boehner’s compromise debt ceiling plan Thursday. So he scrambled yesterday, adding a measure to force a vote on a balanced budget amendment to his proposal, which the House finally passed last night.
“We’re the people that are going to say, ‘No,’ to Washington, D.C., taxing and spending,” U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), a member of the Tea Party Caucus, said on the House floor yesterday.
But just two hours after the Tea Party’s House victory, the GOP plan was rejected by the Democratic-controlled Senate. And the gridlock continued.
If leaders on Capitol Hill can’t reach a deal to raise the debt ceiling and the nation defaults on its bills, Tea Party leaders acknowledged that Republicans could take the fall at the polls next year.
“It is a possibility that public opinion could shift. There are segments out there doing their best to make that happen,” Tea Party Nation chief Judson Phillips told the Herald…
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/2011_0730tea_partys_last_stand_walks_a_fine_line_with_debt_gambit/srvc=home&position=also
“We’re the people that are going to say, ‘No,’ to Washington, D.C., taxing and spending,” U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), a member of the Tea Party Caucus, said on the House floor yesterday.
But just two hours after the Tea Party’s House victory, the GOP plan was rejected by the Democratic-controlled Senate. And the gridlock continued.
If leaders on Capitol Hill can’t reach a deal to raise the debt ceiling and the nation defaults on its bills, Tea Party leaders acknowledged that Republicans could take the fall at the polls next year.
“It is a possibility that public opinion could shift. There are segments out there doing their best to make that happen,” Tea Party Nation chief Judson Phillips told the Herald…
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/2011_0730tea_partys_last_stand_walks_a_fine_line_with_debt_gambit/srvc=home&position=also