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US Senator Ted Cruz, the Texas Tea Party firebrand who nearly provoked the second government shutdown in a little over a year, on Tuesday apologised to his fellow Republicans for a strategy that backfired.

A Cruz spokeswoman said the senator apologised to colleagues "for inconveniencing their personal schedules" over the weekend. Cruz still believes, the spokeswoman said, that fighting to stop President Barack Obama's new programme easing deportations for millions of illegal immigrants "was critically important."

The apology to Republican senators came at a closed-door lunch when Cruz, a possible 2016 presidential candidate, "was contrite and made an effort to explain to people he wished he hadn't done it," said a source familiar with the meeting.

Cruz sparked a public rebuke by fellow Republican senators. They criticised the Texan for forcing the Senate to be in session Friday night and through Saturday because he refused to allow quick passage of a US$1.1 trillion (S$1.43 trillion) bill keeping the government running beyond midnight Saturday.

Cruz's actions inadvertently allowed Democratic leaders to advance nearly two dozen Obama nominees. These included Sarah Saldana, chosen to head the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Republicans had been trying to block some of those nominations.

Some Republican senators had been privately talking up the need to punish Cruz, according to Senate Republican aides.

Among ideas were possibly denying Cruz committee assignments or "blocking him from being able to offer things," one aide said.

Senator John Cornyn, second-ranking Senate Republican and Cruz's fellow Texan, noted "persuasion," rather than punishment, was the coin of the realm.

"One of the good things about being a United States senator is that any individual senator can pursue any tactics that they choose to pursue and there's not much anybody else can do about it," Cornyn said.

Republicans won big in Nov. 4 elections, gaining control of the Senate and expanding their majority in the House of Representatives. The party appeared to be coming together after a series of election cycles pitting Tea Party activists against mainstream Republicans.

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Nancy Genovese, a Tea Party member, was awarded $1.2 million after a federal jury found that she had been wrongly prosecuted by Suffolk County authorities. The Long Island native was arrested in July 2009 for taking pictures of a display helicopter in front of the Gabreski Airport Air National Guard base.

Genovese, 58, claimed that she was only arrested because she was a member of the Tea Party. After a search of her car revealed a legally owned rifle, Genovese claims that a Southhampton police officer said, I bet you are one of those Tea Party people. He also added, Youre a real right-winger arent you? and, You are a Teabagger.

Genovese was taking the pictures for a Support Our Troops website.

Originally Genovese was charged with criminal trespass and had to spend four days in jail. The charge was dismissed in November 2009, but Genovese sued in 2010. Her lawyer Frederick Brewington argued that, Ms. Genovese was subjected to a level of abuse because (authorities) did not share the same political views as she did and saw this as an excuse to deny her even the most basic civil rights.

After learning of the jurys decision, Genovese said she was relieved and said, If this can happen to me, and officers can abuse their power like this, I can only imagine how other people who are not as fortunate as me have been treated.

Sources: New York Post, Breitbart News/ Photo Credit: wikipedia.org

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CHINK: Tea-time in the Cornhill with (from left) Jade Durrant, Laura Cross, Ella, aged ten, and Molly Rees, eight.

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SHOPPERS in the centre of Bridgwater enjoyed a refreshingly vintage cuppa at the weekend, thanks to a pop-up tea party held in the Cornhill.

Laura Cross, who runs the monthly event, said: Sedgemoor District Council has allowed me to do one pop-up tea party a month.

The aim is to get more people coming into the Cornhill to do their shopping and have a look around.

Laura will be holding another tea party in January but the date is still to be confirmed.

The tea and cakes are served on beautiful vintage crockery and offers weary shoppers a fun and quirky addition to the selection of coffee shops and cafs in the centre of town.

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