Under Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives Joe Straus of San Antonio, he was chairman of the powerful State Affairs and Redistricting committees, respectively, in the 2009 and 2011 sessions.
In 2009, Speaker Joe Straus named Eiland Speaker Pro-tempore of the House of Representatives, a job which entails leading the house in Speaker Straus' absence.
The opposition successfully pushed the election of Joe Straus of San Antonio, considered a much more moderate member of the GOP.
In the aftermath of the November 2008 elections in which House Democrats won 74 seats (just 2 shy of a majority), Dunnam played a pivotal role in ousting Tom Craddick as Speaker of the House and replacing him with Joe Straus.
He was reappointed as chair of the Human Services Committee for the 2009-2010 session by Speaker Joe Straus (R-San Antonio).
At the start of his sixth term, during the 82nd Legislative Session, the Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, Joe Straus, named Hunter as Chairman of the Calendars Committee.
Meanwhile, Simpson, who beat back Merritt's attempt in 2012 to return to the House, is a candidate in Januaruy 2013 for Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives against Joe Straus of San Antionio, whom Merritt had supported in 2009, when Straus ousted the previous Republican speaker, Tom Craddick of Midland.
In 2009, as Lewis succeeded West, Craddick himself was deposed as Speaker by Moderate Republican Joe Straus of San Antonio.
These members blamed Speaker Joe Straus, a moderate Republicans from San Antonio, for redrawing their district lines to their disadvantage.
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