Tom DeLay will be dancing the Texas Two-Step with Cheryl Burke on the season finale of "Dancing With the Stars" Tuesday night. Last month, DeLay had to drop out of the popular TV dance competition after three weeks because of stress fractures in both of his feet. Now fully healed, the former House majority leader is back in Los Angeles to dance on Tuesday's results show on ABC at 9 p.m. EST.

"I'm so excited to dance," Delay happily told me on the phone during rehearsals with Burke. ". . . I'm much more comfortable now that I'm not competing."

While the other former candidates will do 20-second dance moves, the producers have asked DeLay and his professional partner, Burke, to do a full routine. He's thrilled that he finally gets to do the familiar Texas Two-Step, though he says Burke "never lets me lead." They will dance to the George Strait song "I Can't See Texas From Here."

DeLay also gets to wear a costume he feels comfortable in -- no more drab brown silk or red sequins -- consisting of Wrangler jeans, a white shirt, belt with a giant buckle and cowboy boots. Well, truth be told, the producers added "a little Hollywood with just one string of sequins on the chest and back of the shirt." Asked if the cowboy boots are real, he says, "Nah. I mean they're Western style, but they are dance boots with felt on the soles."

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