The debate last week in the U.S. House on the first budget bill for next year was interesting for one major reason - only a handful of newly elected Republicans were involved in any efforts on the House floor  to further cut government spending.

As the House voted to trim the budget for homeland defense by just over a billion dollars, there was no blizzard of amendments by GOP lawmakers seeking deeper cuts.

In fact, even though the bill was wide open for amendment - the first time in four years that had happened on a spending bill brought up on the House floor - much of the freshman Republican class seemed to be Missing In Action.

Now granted, the process is probably unfamiliar to many of these Republican newcomers - but they did get a good view on how it works earlier this year, when the House battled over the budget for the current year.

And it's not hard to ask for help around Capitol Hill.

But of the 87 Republican freshmen who entered Congress after winning in the November 2010 elections, only four of them brought an amendment to the House floor on the homeland security budget bill, and really only one of them was truly budget related:

And that's it. That was the extent of what the Republican freshman class did in terms of offering amendments to the first budget bill.

There was no Tea Party avalanche of proposed budget cuts.

There was no line-by-line march through the bill to squeeze some more savings.

And over half of the new GOP lawmakers voted against the largest cut offered - the 10% across the board cut, which would have saved $4 billion.

In fact, of the 108 Republicans who voted for that $4 billion cut, 38 of them were elected last November - that means the other 70 were not elected in a Tea Party Tide.

Let's break down those numbers - 38 of 87 freshmen GOP lawmakers voted for a 10% cut - that's 44% of the new class.

70 of the remaining 153 Republicans voted for that cutback - that's 46%.

Well, how about that? The GOP lawmakers who have been here longer than just a few months were slightly more supportive of deep budget cuts.

Here is a list of the 38 (of 87) freshman GOP members who voted for that $4 billion cut:

Amash (MI)
Benishek (MI)
Brooks (AL)
Canseco (TX)
Chabot (OH)
Duffy (WI)
Duncan (SC)
Farenthold (TX)
Flores (TX)
Gardner (CO)
Gosar (AZ)
Gowdy (SC)
Griffin (AR)
Griffith (VA)
Harris (MD)
Huelskamp (KS)
Huizenga (MI)
Labrador (ID)
Landry (LA)
Lankford (OK)
Mulvaney (SC)
Nugent (FL)
Nunnelee (MS)
Pearce (NM)
Pompeo (KS)
Quayle (AZ)
Renacci (OH)
Ribble (WI)
Rigell (VA)
Rokita (IN)
Ross (FL)
Schweikert (AZ)
Scott (SC)
Southerland (FL)
Tipton (AZ)
Walberg (MI)
Walsh (IL)
Yoder (KS)