Tea Party Caucus
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The Tea Party Caucus (TPC) was a congressional caucus of the Republican Party in the United States House of Representatives, consisting of its most conservative members. It was founded in July 2010 by Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann in coordination with the Tea Party movement the year following the movement's 2009 creation. Bachmann served as the Caucus's first chair.
Michele Bachmann (2010–2015)
Tim Huelskamp (2015–2017)
Senators Rand Paul (R) and Ted Cruz (R), both members of the Senate's informal Tea Party Caucus, address a Tea Party Express rally.
Tea Party movement
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The Tea Party movement was an American fiscally conservative political movement within the Republican Party that began in 2009. The movement formed in opposition to the policies of Democratic President Barack Obama and was a major factor in the 2010 wave election in which Republicans gained 63 House seats and took control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Tea Party protesters on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol and the National Mall at the Taxpayer March on Washington on September 12, 2009
The iconic 1846 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier, The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor; the phrase Boston Tea Party had not yet become standard and, contrary to Currier's depiction, few of the men dumping the tea were actually disguised as Native Americans.
A Tea Party protest in Dallas in April 2009
Michele Bachmann, Republican in Congress from Minnesota, 2007 to 2015.