Crowd members use signs to voice their opinions during Republican Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner’s town hall meeting at in Pewaukee, Wis., on Feb. 11. Town halls for GOP Congress members are reminiscent of tea party behavior in 2009. less Crowd members use signs to voice their opinions during Republican Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner’s town hall meeting at in Pewaukee, Wis., on Feb. 11. Town halls for GOP Congress members are reminiscent of tea party … more In that Summer of the Tea Party, conservative activists packed the town hall meetings of Democratic congressmen and peppered them with hostile questions.