On anniversary, Tea Party vows to move U.S. Congress to right
(Reuters) - The largest group in the conservative U.S. Tea Party movement celebrated its fifth anniversary on Thursday with a pledge to push Congress further to the right and capture the White House in 2016.
At a rally in a hotel ballroom two blocks from the Capitol, lawmakers allied with the Tea Party Patriots said their movement had matured from a raucous protest against the growth of government to one that would engage with the government's machinery to promote a stronger conservative agenda.
"It's about winning a civil debate, not a civil war," said Senator Mike Lee, a Tea Party Republican from Utah elected in 2010.
At its start, he said the movement was more akin to the 1773 Boston anti-tax protest but said it should move towards the constructive work done by the framers of the Constitution, who met at Philadelphia in 1787.
"It's much more important that rather than just picking a fight, we've got to move forward with something," Lee said. "If we grasp onto an agenda, we will catch the Washington, D.C. establishment off-guard."
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