page_title: Tea Party Caucus
section_title: House
hierarchical_section_title: Tea Party Caucus / List of current members / House
context_page_description: The Tea Party Caucus was a congressional caucus of conservative members of the Republican Party in the United States House of Representatives. The Caucus was founded in July 2010 by Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann in coordination with the Tea Party movement the year following the movement's 2009 creation. Bachmann served as the Caucus's first chair.
  From July 2012 to April 2013 the Tea Party Caucus neither met nor posted news on its webpage, leading observers to describe it as "dead," "inactive," and "defunct." In April 2013, Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina filed paperwork to create a new Tea Party Caucus, but found that Bachmann intended to continue the caucus, starting with an event on April 25, 2013. On June 19, 2014, Tea Party Caucus member Steve Scalise of Louisiana was elected as the House Majority Whip. The Caucus was reconstituted in the 114th Congress in January 2015. Rep. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas became the chair in February 2015. Huelskamp lost party primary election in 2016. The Caucus is now largely inactive.
context_section_description: The Caucus chair was Michele Bachmann of Minnesota between 2010 and her retirement in 2015. Tim Huelskamp was elected as the Caucus' second chair in January 2015, but was defeated in the 2016 Republican primary by Roger Marshall. Of a possible 435 Representatives, as of January 6, 2013, the committee had 48 members, all Republicans. At its height, the Caucus had 60 members in 2011.
  Several members of the Tea Party Caucus were part of the Republican leadership. Tom Price served as chairman of the Republican Policy Committee, making him the seventh ranking Republican in the House, John R. Carter was the Secretary of the House Republican Conference, ranking him the ninth ranking Republican, and Pete Sessions was the number six Republican as the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. Other former members of the Tea Party Caucus held committee chairmanships such as Lamar S. Smith, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
  Arizona
  David Schweikert
  California
  Tom McClintock
  Colorado
  Doug Lamborn
  Florida
  Gus Bilirakis
  Ander Crenshaw
  Ted Yoho
  Iowa
  Steve King
  Indiana
  Marlin Stutzman
  Louisiana
  Steve Scalise
  Michigan
  Tim Walberg
  Mississippi
  Steven Palazzo
  Missouri
  Vicky Hartzler
  Blaine Luetkemeyer
  Nebraska
  Adrian Smith
  South Carolina
  Jeff Duncan
  Joe Wilson
  Tennessee
  Stephen Fincher
  Phil Roe
  Texas
  Michael C. Burgess
  John Carter
  Louie Gohmert
  Kenny Marchant
  Utah
  Rob Bishop
  West Virginia
  David McKinley
caption: 112th Congress Tea Party Caucus membership map.