For his first eight years in Washington, Jim DeMint was like most members of Congress – relatively quiet, fairly innocuous and pretty much unknown o...

Dispirited by congressional wrangling over the debt ceiling in 2011, Tea Party members‘ passions began to wane. Then other forces took hold to inten...

Thursday's announcement of U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint's resignation from the United States Senate to head up The Heritage Foundation left many Upstate conse...

DeMint and Heritage are perfect for each other. DeMint came out of the Religious Right and became the movement's go-to guy in the Senate even before he became the face of the Tea Party movement.

While conservative kingmaker Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) mulls endorsing fresh Republican candidates for 2012, The Huffington Post has learned that Democ...

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), founder of the Senate Conservatives Fund and a leader of the Tea Party movement, compared Sarah Palin to former President Ro...

WASHINGTON — He calls himself Sen. Tea Party. That almost says it all about Sen. Jim DeMint's role on the nation's political scene in these ner...

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- As the Republican campaign to replace President Barack Obama heats up in early voting states like South Carolina, U.S. Sen. Jim DeMi...

"I'm not running for president, but I will be working with grass-roots activists across the country to ensure the next Republican nominee has the prin...

WASHINGTON - The 2012 election may be taking its time to heat up, but Sen. Jim DeMint says that’s no excuse for Republican presidential hopefuls who...

WASHINGTON -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) may have been frosty to the Tea Party before, but he's offering the irate anti-tax crowd ...

That brings us to the real question regarding DeMint and the Tea Party movement he has come to represent. Are they leading the Republican Party down t...

South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint -- who has achieved superstar status among conservatives and emerged as a prominent face of the Tea Party movement -- r...

A number of Republican senators told Politico Tuesday that DeMint was skewing the GOP conference's position solidly backing Miller, saying he was inte...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Jim DeMint on Thursday dismissed worries by some of his fellow Republicans that tea party-backed politicians like Delaware Sen...

While many might consider former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be the face of the Tea Party, when in comes to the 2010 midterm elections, it seems that S...

Sen. Jim DeMint is making a bid to be the tea party movement's best friend in Washington. It's hardly a coincidence that the South Carolina Republica...

If you're an underdog conservative running for Congress, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) should be on your speed dial these days. A favorite of the tea part...