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The Contract from America was the idea of Houston-based attorney Ryan Hecker. Hecker states that he developed the concept of creating a grassroots call for reform prior to the April 15, 2009 Tax Day Tea Party rallies. To get his idea off the ground, he launched a website which encouraged people to offer possible planks for the contract.
The Tea Party is strongly opposed to government-imposed limits on carbon dioxide emissions as part of emissions trading legislation to encourage use of fuels that emit less carbon dioxide. [199] An example is the movement's support of California Proposition 23, which would suspend AB32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. [200]
The Tea Party Movement, founded in 2009, is an American political movement that advocates strict adherence to the United States Constitution, [1] reduced U.S. government spending and taxes, [2] [3] and reduction of the U.S. national debt and federal budget deficit.
The Tea Party brought the nation to the brink of a damaging, and clearly unpopular federal government shutdown. And the Tea Party has already announced a plan to end Medicare.
On Saturday evening in my native New York City, I attended a dinner party at which the topic of globalization dominated the cocktail period. The consensus among the couples in attendance was that ...
David Weigel wrote in Slate that AFP "in the Tea Party era evolved into one of the most powerful conservative organizations in electoral politics." [101] AFP and the Tea Party share many of the same principles. [102] In 2010, AFP was one of the most influential organizations in the Tea Party movement, and the largest in terms of membership and ...
It turns out many who rode the wave of principled libertarianism were neither.
The Contract with America was a legislative agenda advocated by the Republican Party during the 1994 congressional election campaign. Written by Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey, and in part using text from former president Ronald Reagan's 1985 State of the Union Address, the contract detailed the actions the Republicans promised to take if they became the majority party in the United States House ...