The One More Vote campaign was designed with the tea parties in mind.

Jeff Mazzella, president of the Center for Individual Freedom, tells Congress.org that he hopes tea partyers will see the campaign -- which began this week -- as a natural next step for their group.

"We're just tapping into the grassroots angst out there over excessive spending," he said. "We saw this as an opportunity to push a real solution out there."

Mazzella's group isn't the only one that has tried to harness tea-party energy. Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks have also pressured the movement to oppose the Democrats' cap-and-trade plan on energy.

The One More Vote campaign may be a more natural fit because it focuses on the tea party trifecta of constitutionally limited government, free markets, and individual liberties.

It aims to convince Congress to pass a balanced budget each year and require a 60 percent vote to raise the debt ceiling or taxes.

"Everything results from grassroots pressure," Mazzella said. "That's one of the only things that Congress responds to."

The Center for Individual Freedom has a broad grassroots base of its own with 250,000 supporters. The conservative group's mission is "to protect and defend individual freedoms and individual rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution."

-- Ambreen Ali, Congress.org