Tea Party activists and allies planted their flag Wednesday on Capitol Hill in the Republican battle over dismantling ObamaCare -- rallying with stalwarts like Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul, then rolling through the halls of Congress to press their case for repealing the 2010 law. “The battle is just beginning,” said Paul, elected to the Senate in the 2010 Tea Party wave. Paul called the GOP lawmakers who crafted the bill “weak-kneed,” suggesting they put the insurance industry’s interests ahead of consumers’. “They have to remember it was the Tea Party that put them in power,” Paul told a crowd of about 100 people, standing in cold, snow-swept Upper Senate Park. ... We need you right now,” Virginia Republican Rep. Dave Brat, a Tea Party favorite who upset party incumbent Eric Cantor in the 2014 election, told the rally of about 100 people.

Source: Fox News March 15, 2017 21:04 UTC