Reply #12: A timeline of the rise and fall of Tom DeLay [View All]

[Melissa G]

A timeline of the rise and fall of Tom DeLay
McClatchy Newspapers

A timeline of the rise and fall of Tom DeLay:


November 1984 - Tom DeLay, a Sugar Land exterminator and member of the Texas Legislature, is elected to Congress from the 22nd District.


November 1994 - After Republicans sweep the congressional elections and take control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years, DeLay is chosen to be majority whip, the chamber's third-ranking Republican.


September 2001 - DeLay spearheads the creation of the Texans for a Republican Majority Political Action Committee, aimed at ending more than a century of Democratic rule in the state House, an impediment to a pro-Republican redistricting plan.


November 2002 - DeLay is elected U.S. House majority leader; Texas Republicans take control of the state House for the first time in more than 130 years.


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