Matt Kibbe talked about the efforts by FreedomWorks to influence the budget debate and their role in the 2012 elections. FreedomWorks appointed a 12-member Tea Party Debt Commission to create a budget plan. Mr. Kibbe also responded to telephone calls and electronic communications, and questions from students at Columbia College in Columbia, South Carolina, who participated via Skype.

C-SPAN Radio's Nancy Calo read news headlines at the end of the program.