Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) decried the “toxic tea” being “brewed” by the Tea Party Republicans in Congress on the floor of the Senate Thursday, highlighting proposed cuts to early education funding, college tuition assistance, women’s health care and environmental protections.“Here in Congress, Tea Party activists have seized control of the Republican side of the aisle — and it is far from a tea party for lots of jobless people and those qualified to study in college but unable to pay the freight,” Lautenberg said in prepared remarks.
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