 In the 2004 general election, Orr handily defeated the Democrat Greg Allen Kauffman (born c. 1954) of Crowley, Texas, 37,001 (69.8 percent) to 16,020 (30.2 percent).During his legislative tenure, Orr served as the chairman of the House Land and Resource Management Committee, vice chairman of the Business and Industry Committee, and he was a member of the Appropriations Committee.He considers his chief accomplishment during his ten years in office as the pending $1.6 billion Chisholm Trail Parkway, a 28-mile toll road from southwestern Fort Worth to Cleburne, the county seat of Johnson County.