Tea Party News
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“I’ll get us that oil from Canada,” Mitt Romney said in his victory speech after the Michigan primary. He was referring to Keystone XL, the crude-oil pipeline that has become a top-tier campaign issue for Republicans.
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Andrew Breitbart, who became a hero to some on the political right for Internet-based muckraking that took on what he saw as too-big government and too-liberal mainstream media, has died. He was 43.
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The Minnesota Vikings and state and local government officials announced a legislative proposal to build a $975 million stadium for the National Football League team with taxpayers contributing about $736.7 million to construct and run the facility.
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Mitt Romney’s double-barreled victory in the Arizona and Michigan primaries yesterday gave him a burst of momentum in the Republican presidential race as the contest shifts to Southern states and Ohio, where his appeal among evangelical and working class voters will be tested anew.
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Republican U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine cited frustration with Congress’s partisanship for her decision not to seek re-election in November, an action that hampers her party’s chances to seize control of the chamber in November.
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Never in his brief U.S. Senate career has Mike Lee, a Tea-Party backed freshman from Utah, attracted such attention. In the past month, he was the subject of the president’s weekly radio address, testified before a House panel and appeared on television news programs five times.
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U.S. Representative Steve Israel, chairman of House Democrats’ re-election efforts, said he thinks his party will come “in range” of retaking majority control of the House of Representatives in the November election.
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The origins of the Tea Party are usually traced to Rick Santelli’s televised rant, which took place on Feb. 19, 2009 -- by coincidence exactly 83 years to the day after Ayn Rand first set foot on American soil. A few anti- tax, anti-government rallies preceded the Santelli tirade, but he and his immediate predecessors usually get the nod for originating the movement.
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Mitt Romney’s Michigan campaign headquarters in a suburban Detroit office building isn’t much bigger than a two-car garage. Fewer than a dozen volunteers and staff members milled about the cramped office late last week dialing potential voters on cell phones.
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Republican presidential primary hopeful Rick Santorum said rival Mitt Romney’s promotion of tax proposals that limit deductions of top income earners is echoing the message of Occupy Wall Street protesters.
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