On January 7, 2006, after weeks of growing pressure from Republican colleagues, and particularly from Reps. Charlie Bass and Jeff Flake, who wanted to avoid being associated with DeLay's legal issues in an election year, DeLay announced that he would not seek to regain his position as Majority Leader.

She tried to portray herself as giving her district a place at the table, but over time Morella's Democratic opponents claimed that a vote for Morella was a vote to keep Tom DeLay and other Republicans unpopular to district voters in power.

In 2005 – 2006, the issue of immigration and labor practices on Saipan was brought up during the American political scandals of Congressman Tom DeLay and lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who visited the island on numerous occasions.

Likewise, it has been used by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner, Senator Charles Grassley, Congressman Steve Buyer, and other Republicans.

* Michael Scanlon, American aide to Congressman Tom DeLay ( R-TX ) and later lobbyist working with Jack Abramoff

During this period in South Africa, Abramoff first met South African – born rabbi David Lapin, who would become his religious advisor, and Lapin's brother and fellow rabbi Daniel Lapin, who allegedly introduced Abramoff to Congressman Tom DeLay ( R-TX ) at a Washington, DC dinner shortly after the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994.

The 2003 redistricting effort was extremely controversial, particularly because of the role played by Congressman Tom DeLay.

Chris Bell, a former Congressman from Houston, filed an ethics complaint against former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay as a lame duck who had been defeated in his party's primary after the controversial mid-decade redistricting in the state.

From 2002 until mid-2005, the Alexander Strategy Group, a Washington, D. C. lobbying firm with close ties to Congressman Tom DeLay, paid Sierra Dominion for bookkeeping work for a nonprofit group called the Korea-U. S. Exchange Council ( KORUSEC ), created by Ed Buckham, a partner in the firm, and located at the ASG headquarters.

Christian Voice has employed hundreds of political organizers, including Susan Hirschman, Chief of Staff to former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Congressman Tom Hagadorn, who chaired the organization for several years, and Tim LaHaye, co-author of the Left Behind series.

Written by Larry Hunter, who was aided by Newt Gingrich, Robert Walker, Richard Armey, Bill Paxon, Tom DeLay, John Boehner and Jim Nussle, and in part using text from former President Ronald Reagan's 1985 State of the Union Address, the Contract detailed the actions the Republicans promised to take if they became the majority party in the United States House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years.

John Colyandro was selected by Jim Ellis and Tom DeLay ( R-Texas ) to be executive director.

In 2003, Turner was one of the targets of a highly controversial redistricting engineered by Tom DeLay.

Thomas Dale " Tom " DeLay (; born April 8, 1947 ) is a former member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1984 until 2006.

On policy issues, not just political strategy and tactics, DeLay was known as one of Capitol Hill's fiercest, staunchest conservatives during his years in Congress, earning very high marks from conservative interest groups ( e. g., business, gun rights, pro-life ) and very low marks from liberal ones ( e. g., civil liberties, labor unions, environmental protection ).

The Washington Post reported that DeLay obtained student deferments from military service while in college and that he received a high draft lottery number in 1969 which ensured that he would not be drafted for the Vietnam War.

DeLay graduated from the University of Houston in 1970 with a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in biology.

Ken Wilde, an evangelical minister from Idaho who founded the National Prayer Center in Washington, D. C., which houses volunteers who come to the capital to pray for the nation's leaders, DeLay said, " This is the man who really saved me.

DeLay declined to comment on a 1999 report in The New Yorker that he was estranged from much of his family, including his mother and one of his brothers.

After graduating from college, DeLay spent three years at pesticide-maker Redwood Chemical and then purchased Albo Pest Control, which DeLay grew into a large and successful business.

Facing the second major attempt in as many years by House Republicans, including DeLay, to oust him as Speaker, Gingrich announced he would resign from Congress.

Armey was out of the running after fending off a bruising challenge to his majority leader's post from Steve Largent of Oklahoma, and DeLay, as the third-ranking House Republican, appeared to have the inside track to the Speakership.

However DeLay decided that he would be " too nuclear " to lead the closely divided House that had resulted from the Republican House losses in 1996 and 1998.

After being indicted on September 28, 2005, DeLay stepped down from his position as Majority Leader.

* Beyond DeLay — Rep. Maxine Waters ( D-CA ) criticism from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

His tenure propelled him from being " among the most obscure members " in the House to gaining national attention, when the Committee formally admonished House Majority Leader Tom DeLay three times over actions that allegedly went " beyond the bounds of acceptable conduct.

His comments in 2005 made Shays the first Republican to say DeLay should step down from the Majority Leader post.

In March 2004, the House Ethics Committee admonished fellow Representative from Michigan Candice Miller and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay for their involvement in the affair.

Tom DeLay, a former member and majority leader of the U. S. House of Representatives, who represented Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1984 until 2006, also attended the University of Houston.

This left Bell vulnerable to a primary challenge from a black or Latino Democrat, and prompted him to file an ethics challenge against Tom DeLay.

Bass was among the first and most vocal congressmen to demand that Tom DeLay step aside as House Majority Leader in 2005 and led the petition that resulted in DeLay's removal from House leadership.

The paper eventually provoked a reaction from several conservative American members of Congress, notably the Republican representatives Matt Salmon of Arizona and Tom DeLay of Texas who both condemned the study as advocating for the normalization of pedophilia ( in the process Delay confused the American Psychological Association with the American Psychiatric Association, an error also made by Schlessinger ).

In June 1999, Fowler announced in an open letter to DeLay that there would be an independent review of the paper and stated that from a public policy perspective, some language used in the article is inflammatory and inconsistent with the position of the APA's stance on CSA.

However, in a controversial 2003 redistricting orchestrated by then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Texarkana was drawn out of the district and moved to the neighboring Fourth congressional district.

For many years, it was based in Tyler, but a controversial 2003 redistricting orchestrated by then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay drew it and neighboring Longview out of District 4 and into neighboring District 1 which made District 1 significantly more Republican.

If a representative said that a bill was unpopular in his district, then DeLay would ask him to vote for it only if his vote were necessary for passage ; if his vote were not needed, then the representative would be able to vote against the party without reprisal.

In January 2006 the Chronicle hired Richard Murray of the University of Houston to conduct an election survey in the district of U. S. Rep. Tom DeLay, in light of his 2005 indictment by District Attorney Ronnie Earle for alleged campaign money violations.

The Chronicle said that its poll showed " severely eroded support for U. S. Rep Tom DeLay in his district, most notably among Republicans who have voted for him before.

During the campaign, Van Hollen emphasized that even when Morella voted with the district, her partisan affiliation kept Tom DeLay and the rest of her party's more conservative leadership in power.

Then-House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, whose district included portions of Houston and its suburbs, even introduced a bill in Congress banning the move, but it did not pass.

Bonilla was priming for a rematch against Cuellar in 2004, but in 2003, a controversial mid-decade redistricting by the Texas legislature, the results of efforts by U. S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, moved most of Laredo, which had been one of the cores of the 23rd since its formation, to the 28th district.

The proposal would have allowed Tom DeLay to remain as Majority Leader despite having been indicted by the Travis County district attorney's office for possible campaign finance violations.

However, it changed dramatically during the 2003 redistricting plan engineered by then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a Republican from Texas's 22nd district.

DeLay was particularly keen to draw a district based in Midland, Odessa and the oil-rich Permian Basin in part because Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick was from that area.

During the investigation, DeLay charged that Earle was a " runaway district attorney " with " a long history of being vindictive and partisan ".