Sen. Sessions video: "The Tea Party didn't start this fire - they sounded the alarm"

Although the debt-ceiling limit action is in the House of Representatives--for now--Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, lauds the change in direction in Washington.

"The Tea Party didn't start this fire - they sounded the alarm," he declared on the Senate floor today.



"Before the last election, when Democrats controlled both chambers of Congress, every conversation was about increasing spending," Sessions added. "But, after the 2010 election, and the emergence of the Tea Party, we finally started to look at Washington's spending problem. Now, instead of just raising the debt ceiling with no spending cuts—as the White House initially and repeatedly demanded—we’re trying to cut spending."

It's been 821 days since the Democratic-controlled Senate passed a budget.

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