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Attributes to the tea party. >> what we have noticed is that the leadership is listening us to. as soon as we got here the leadership started having these listening tours. they would talk us to and they would explain some of the things they were trying to accomplish here in washington. ill be honest, for the most part i think they thought they were going to convince us their way was the better way we were trying to move things too fast. i have to give the leadership a lot of credit. when they st...

All the tea party is what we used to call the old reagan coalition. what we used to call the silent majority. just people for the most part are not typically involved in politics and just got fed up with the way things are being didnt in washington. >> reporter: a republican congressman from the first district of idaho. he was out-spent 6-1 but won by 10 points much of which he attributes to the tea party. >> what we have noticed is that the leadership is listening us to. as soon as we got here ...

They changed the budget and the cr and allowed us to bring the influence that we were bringing from the grass roots here to washington. >> the biggest impact has to do with the fact that all tea partiers want is less intrusion by the federal government and their lives. >> reporter: the junior senator from utah. his upset victory against long serving robert ben get was -- robert bennett was seen as one of the earliest victories. >> the government was never to be all thins to all people. it wasnt ...

These government employees while the rest of us pay a lot more and we want them to pay their fair share. they dont want to. theyd rather lay off these government employees and keep their power in the unions. thats what this is about. >> all right, so were seeing this in wisconsin and indiana, its moving from state to state. its going to be ohio next. lets talk about the country as a whole because we dont have a budget yet for this year that were currently living. it looks like the senate democra...

Amplifies that its not just a federal crisis about the a state crisis. so, you know, the protests are being played out first on the state level. its the end of next week we face a government shutdown here in washington. i think were reaching this giant crisis, this giant fiscal crisis. i saw yesterday, a report, joe, from the sergeant ofç arms who takes care of security up on capitol hill, warning the senate and house offices about massive protests. so you see they are already prepping for peo...

Some jobs because we need to raise the revenue side. >> i think thats right. thats why you see the president yesterday at the small business event, meeting with his jobs council. what he is communicating from the white house is im focused on the economy. my budget is one step in that direction but ive got to lead here. i cant get caught up in political games like what is going on in wisconsin. >> certainly the messaging out of the white house has changed and you could argue improved a great deal...

Eight hundred thousand federal employees were furloughs for five days in 1995. >> uh-huh. bill: you had 368 national parks, museums, monument, closed, the passport application were not touched, investigation rans checks were delayed and on it goes. thats what happens when a government shuts down. >> thats why really the only people who want a government shutdown are sorry to say assignment editors and newspapers. bill: what do you mean! thats work for us? >> because its a great story. people not...

>> the fact that i contributed to moving our country forward to tackling the real fiscal and financial problems we are facing now. we are in deep trouble. if i can do anything to get our country moving again on a fiscal footing that we need to have to compete globally, if ive contributed to that,od to getting this tomorrow talk to focus on the real issues, ill be a happy man. >> greta: is the job fun or not? >> 80% of the time it is fun. it is a lot of work. ive had solid colleagues. when people...

>> the fact that i contributed to moving our country forward to tackling the real fiscal and financial problems we are facing now. we are in deep trouble. if i can do anything to get our country moving again on a fiscal footing that we need to have to compete globally, if ive contributed to that,od to getting this tomorrow talk to focus on the real issues, ill be a happy man. >> greta: is the job fun or not? >> 80% of the time it is fun. it is a lot of work. ive had solid colleagues. when people...

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