For those who expect and fear an irrepressible conflict between the tea party and the Republican establishment, Sen. Mike Lee of Utah is a hopeful anomaly. Should this anomaly become a trend ...

Mike Rogers, a senior Michigan Republican in ... Also on POLITICO: Thom Tillis beats tea party challenge in North Carolina) “Because my vote explanations shine a spotlight on Congress, I ...

Mike Huckabee's (R) announcement Saturday that ... Why is the Club, an anti-tax tea group that likes to back tea party candidates, going out of its way to target Huckabee so forcefully?

Mike Castle. National media attention and an endorsement from Sarah Palin followed the Tea Party Express announcement, and a campaign that was once an afterthought ended up a winner. But the Tea ...

In the Senate, Rand Paul and Mike Lee fought the good fight, but they couldn't even convince Ted Cruz to stand firm. Cruz, the one-time Tea Party darling, "reluctantly" supported the spending ...

Of the newly elected Tea Party senators, Mike Lee, a 39-year-old Republican from Utah, has the most impeccable establishment legal credentials: the son of Rex Lee, a solicitor general under ...

Nikki Haley: Tea-party champion to establishment stooge in ... Since then, he has worked with the stalwart conservative Utah senator Mike Lee to craft a tax-reform plan, been a hawk on national ...

There were other Tea Party-fueled victories that year. Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, and Mike Lee, rode that wave, as did many of the GOP candidates who gave Barack Obama a “shellacking” in the ...

Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) at a two-hour ... The vice president’s hot rhetoric about tea party Republicans underscored the tense moment on Capitol Hill as four party leaders in both chambers work ...

Michael Grimm (R-NY). Elected to public office for the first time just 18 months ago, Grimm appeared at first blush to exemplify the small government, anti-labor ethos of the Tea Party — and ...

The most powerful man in the House, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), also has ties to the Tea Party movement. He spoke at a Tea Party rally in 2009 and attended an event on Inauguration Day hosted by ...