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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 wasn't intended to tell us about personal decisions. like where to go to the doctor and how to pay for it. >> reporter: when folks write mike lee is a tea party sena...

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. i'll 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 started hearing from most of us we weren't cutting enough, we weren't going fast enough. they changed...

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 wasn't intended to tell us about personal decisions. like where to go to the doctor and how to pay for it....