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Tea Party Group Presents Its Own Debt Commission Report





As the Congressional committee charged with reining in the deficit nears its deadline for coming up with a way to cut it by at least $1.2 trillion over 10 years, the Tea Party — or at least, a small group aiming to represent the Tea Party — is presenting its own ideas.
The group, the Tea Party Debt Commission, has been soliciting ideas from Tea Party supporters over the past several months, and will release its final recommendations on Thursday, at a hearing on Capitol Hill convened for it by conservative senators and House members.
When it was formed, its organizers said that the commission would prove that the Tea Party, which tends to like the idea of cutting deficits rather than actual cuts, could in fact come up with a specific plan – one with far more ambitious goals than the joint Congressional committee that is supposed to release its recommendations next week.


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Senate Rules Committee Blocks Tea Party Debt Commission From Presenting Budget Proposal



The Senate Rules Committee reportedly blocked the Tea Party Debt Commission from unveiling its budget proposal at the Capitol Thursday, with staff members removing microphones and locking doors to the room where the group was set to present its findings.

FreedomWorks, the organization that organized the “months-long, crowd-sourced effort” among Tea Party members to develop a budget proposal, said in a release that the scheduled, pre-approved informal hearing was suddenly canceled. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) chairs the committee. Participants relocated to Hillsdale College’s Kirby Center, a few blocks from the Capitol.


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