Dan Patrick, a senator from Houston, announced that he was starting a Tea Party Caucus.
House Republican leaders should reconcile and work with the burgeoning Tea Party caucus to develop a good strategy, better ideas, and better bills.
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Sunday update: Senate Republicans emerging from a party caucus told reporters they had agreed to take changes to Social Security off the table.
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Akin was one of the first members of Congress to join the Tea Party Caucus in 2010 and has easily won reelection in recent years.
Minority Leader Reid won't confirm that he made that promise, and it's possible the decision would fall to a vote of the entire party caucus.
As head of the recently reconstituted Tea Party Caucus, Mrs.
The fact that Michele Bachmann, leader of the House tea-party caucus, insisted on giving her own response to Mr Obama this week shows how prickly this faction can be.
Up until that point, conventions had very little to do with the candidate himself, essentially serving as a party-wide caucus about what the party was going to stand for and recognizing its leaders throughout the apparatus of power.
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Angus King, an independent former governor, looks likely to win the seat, and refuses to say which party he will caucus with.
Miller has the official backing of more than 100 state and local elected officials and the unofficial backing of his party's caucus in the state Legislature.
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He'd caucus with the party, which means he'd get to attend and vote at party meetings.
The Republican presidential campaign has included a conservative shift to appeal to tea party voters in the primary and caucus season.
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Republicans had long opposed the minimum wage increase pushed by Cuomo, the Assembly's Democratic majority, and a group of Democratic senators who caucus separately from the party and share control of the Senate with Republicans.
On Friday another politician, lawmaker Patrick Mercer left the Conservative parliamentary caucus "to save my party embarrassment" ahead of allegations of lobbying irregularities due to be aired in a BBC documentary.
"The health secretary coming out in favour of reigniting this debate will galvanise the caucus that exists in Parliament, cross-party, on this issue, " he said.
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Tuesday night's 257-167 vote saw Boehner, R-Ohio, and about a third of the GOP majority lining up with Democrats against most of their own caucus, including Majority Leader Eric Cantor and party whip Kevin McCarthy.
And at least some members of the Republican caucus who are not part of the tea party wing of the party recognize that the possibility and prospect of compromise on fiscal issues could improve the economy and resolve outstanding issues like tax reform, the debt ceiling, and entitlement reform, and this in turn can yield political dividends.
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They have moved the party in a libertarian direction, as has the Republican Liberty Caucus.
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Just under a dozen states use the Caucus system - the number is different according to party.
If those 21 Democrats keep their pledges to vote no, party leaders can only afford to lose 19 more members of their caucus.
While Sharpton was a colorful and eloquent figure on the campaign trail -- often standing out at party debates -- he failed to win a state primary or caucus.
The party will split 67 delegates between the candidates in proportion to the final caucus results.
As Lugar's recent primary loss shows, Republican activists are now targeting any member of the party who can be tagged as centrists, and they are pushing their caucus farther to the right, making compromise almost impossible.
The Speaker of the House is the leader of the Republican Party in the House, the House Republicans, and he was elected by his caucus to lead, and we obviously are negotiating with him and have had productive conversations with him.
Yes, he has flipped positions more than the chief cook at IHOP, but he reportedly promised to caucus with the Democrats, and that was manna from heaven for a party facing the prospect of losing big in the House and the Senate.
Young voters made up about a fifth of the 239, 000 caucus participants, about twice as many as typically take part, according to party officials.
Obama was leading Clinton in the caucus vote 56 percent to 44 percent with 38 percent of the state counted, party officials said.
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