Straus is Texas' first Jewish Speaker. ... conservative" as Speaker, on the  grounds that "we elected a house ...
Oct 25, 2017 ... Texas House Speaker Joe Straus (R) announced Wednesday he will retire ...  Straus, the first Jewish Speaker in Texas history, also endured a ...
Feb 7, 2011 ... Weeks after swooping into the Texas Capitol, Comedy Central's The ... House  Speaker Joe Straus, who was re-elected in January, is Jewish. ... House Speaker  Joe Straus strikes the gavel on the first day of the new session.
Texan of the Year: Joe Straus took a principled stand to protect Texas, Dallas ...  Straus expected to be state's first Jewish speaker of House, Austin American ...
Jan 27, 2009 ... For starters, he is the first Jewish speaker since Texas became a state ... Joe  Straus on his first day as speaker of the Texas House with his wife, ...
Joe Straus is the "first Jewish speaker of the" Texas House.