 Pauken ran again for the U.S. House in a special election after Steve Bartlett resigned to run for mayor of Dallas.Sam Johnson defeated Pauken, with 24,004 votes (52.6 percent) to 21,647 (47.4 percent).In 2010, Pauken endorsed Perry for renomination in his successful race against Senator Hutchison and for reelection in the fall campaign against the Democrat Bill White, a former mayor of Houston, Texas.