Tea Party

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Ousted IRS chief Steven Miller testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, May 17, 2013, before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the extra scrutiny the IRS gave Tea Party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., chairwoman of the Tea Party Caucus, listens at left as while Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks during a news conference with Tea Party leaders about the IRS targeting Tea Party groups, Thursday, May 16, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Associated Press)

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Tea Party member William Temple of Brunswick, Ga., left, who dresses as Button Gwinnett, a representative of Georgia who was the second to sign the Declaration of Independence, listens with others to the opening day invocation at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (C.P.A.C.) held at the Gaylord National Hotel, National Harbor, Md., Thursday, March 14, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Tea Party member William Temple of Brunswick, Ga. who dresses as Button Gwinnett, a representative of Georgia who was the second to sign the Declaration of Independence, listens to the opening day invocation at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (C.P.A.C.) held at the Gaylord National Hotel, National Harbor, Md., Thursday, March 14, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Tea party member William Temple of Brunswick, Ga., who dresses as Button Gwinnett, a representative of Georgia who was the second person to sign the Declaration of Independence, listens to the opening day invocation at CPAC. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Tea Party member William Temple of Brunswick, Ga. who dresses as Button Gwinnett, a representative of Georgia who was the second to sign the Declaration of Independence, listens to the opening day invocation at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (C.P.A.C.) held at the Gaylord National Hotel, National Harbor, Md., Thursday, March 14, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Tea Party member William Temple of Brunswick, Ga., left, who dresses as Button Gwinnett, a representative of Georgia who was the second to sign the Declaration of Independence, listens with others to the opening day invocation at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (C.P.A.C.) held at the Gaylord National Hotel, National Harbor, Md., Thursday, March 14, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Tea party member William Temple (left) of Brunswick, Ga., dressed as Button Gwinnett, a representative of Georgia who was the second to sign the Declaration of Independence, listens March 14, 2013, with others to the opening day invocation at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Hotel in National Harbor, Md. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Tea party supporter William Temple of Brunswick, Ga., protests President Obama's health care law outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Thursday, June 28, 2012. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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Jim Coyle of Hagerstown, Md., gets out an American flag and two Don't Tread on Me flags as he joins dozens of other Marylanders for a tea party rally in front of the Maryland Statehouse in Annapolis on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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**FILE** Tea Party activists protest Sept. 4, 2011, against Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at a Tea Party Express rally in Concord, N.H. (Associated Press)