Sentences with phrase «tea party groups began»

That started to change last summer, when local tea party groups began protesting what they viewed as the latest intrusion by an overreaching federal government — even though the impetus had come from the states.

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Washington (CNN)-- The nation's largest tea party political action committee is planning a major push this September for Mitt Romney and other Republicans with what will be their «longest» cross country bus tour since the movement began in 2009, the group said Wednesday.

Tea party groups have suddenly begun pressuring Republican state lawmakers to reassess their support for the bipartisan initiative on Common Core Learning Standards backed by President Obama.

Three years later, when Pence took office, local Tea Party groups and other activists began a campaign to repeal the standards they saw as a federal overreach into classrooms.