Andris Skele's government took power last July after the previous government was brought down in a dispute over fiscal policy.

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The small-"l" libertarians in the tea party movement identified the Republican Party as the coalition closest to their concerns about fiscal responsibility and the growth of government power, and they have gone about making the GOP more libertarian from the grass-roots up.

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The UK government says the bill represents the "biggest transfer of fiscal power to Scotland".

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