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Paul, who rose in two years from the ranks of a relatively unknown Kentucky political outsider to senator-elect by tapping into the tea party movement, is counting on a partnership with other new arrivals to press for conservative causes. The new tea party caucus, he said, will include voters in the legislative process.

“Instead of a caucus that just meets and decides what we want to do, we’re going to have a meeting, invite the grass roots up from all over the United States, then broadcast our meeting out,” Paul said. “The whole idea of the tea party is not that we’re telling them what to do, it’s bringing them together to tell us what they want to do. It really is trying to embrace some of the grass roots-up phenomenon of the tea party.”

Paul said government reforms, including term limits and waiting periods before bill votes, will be among the first issues the caucus will tackle.

Momentum, Paul said, is with the tea party following November midterm elections that signaled the electorate wants change. Already, Senate Republicans such as Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have renounced earmarks that Paul and other tea party candidates attacked as wasteful during their campaigns.

“I’d like to capitalize on the earmarking victory, and then move on to some other things,” Paul said. “I think we have to talk about some specific ways to cut spending, and have a bill that cuts spending.”

“I think there’s never been a time in our history when the American public was more ready to hear about how we fix the system,” Paul said.

After a morning of meeting with patients, Paul leafed through budget-related documents. He is planning to push for a constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget as well as his own plan for erasing the federal deficit. Paul said he has been going over proposals from the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute, conservative policy groups.

So far, Paul has hired only two aides: Doug Stafford, a longtime Washington political operative who advised the campaign, as chief of staff, and Cayce Moffett, a campaign intern, as deputy chief of staff.

Those positions are the only two that Paul can fill before he is sworn in Jan. 5. But he already has selected people to fill other key jobs, including former Kentucky Republican Party spokeswoman Moira Bagley as communications director and Laurel County GOP Chairman Brian Mills as state political director. Paul also has invited Bunning’s legislative director, William Henderson, to join his staff.