{"id":8322,"date":"2011-01-15T18:47:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T23:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8322"},"modified":"2011-01-15T18:47:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T23:47:38","slug":"is-your-senator-in-the-upper-chamber%e2%80%99s-tea-party-caucus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8322\/is-your-senator-in-the-upper-chamber%e2%80%99s-tea-party-caucus\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Senator in the Upper Chamber\u2019s Tea Party Caucus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators Jim DeMint (R-SC), Mike Lee (R-UT), and Rand Paul (R-KY) have all joined the <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/44\/2011\/01\/rand-paul-announces-senate-tea.html\" target=\"_blank\">new Senate Tea Party caucus<\/a>.\u00a0 No word yet on movement favorite Marco Rubio (R-FL), or other stalwart fiscal conservatives like Tom Coburn (R-OK).<\/p>\n<p><em>Politico<\/em> notes that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/glennthrush\/0111\/Tea_Party_Caucus_convenes.html\" target=\"_blank\">caucuses are more important in the House<\/a> because of that chamber\u2019s preference for majority rule.\u00a0 In the Senate, one member can hold up or kill legislation if he\u2019s willing to filibuster (or usually just threaten it).\u00a0 Even so, it would be nice to see DeMint attract enough members to the Tea Party caucus so that the Senate has at least one institutional block against runaway spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators Jim DeMint (R-SC), Mike Lee (R-UT), and Rand Paul (R-KY) have all joined the new Senate Tea Party caucus.\u00a0 No word yet on movement favorite Marco Rubio (R-FL), or other stalwart fiscal conservatives like Tom Coburn (R-OK). Politico notes that caucuses are more important in the House because of that chamber\u2019s preference for majority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2284,271,352,1860,669,28,15],"class_list":["post-8322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-caucus","tag-jim-demint","tag-marco-rubio","tag-mike-lee","tag-rand-paul","tag-tea-party","tag-tom-coburn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8323,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8322\/revisions\/8323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}