TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas congressman Tim Huelskamp hopes to eventually regain a seat on the U.S. House Agriculture Committee now that Speaker John Boehner has announced plans to resign.

But Huelskamp said Friday that he’s focusing first on fellow Republicans picking a replacement for Boehner. Huelskamp clashed with the Ohio Republican, and Boehner stripped him of an Agriculture Committee seat late in 2012.

Huelskamp said Republicans need new leaders and that voters are tired of the political establishment. The western Kansas congressman said GOP House members returned to Washington after their latest recess tired of defending Boehner back home.

Other Kansas Republicans were complimentary of Boehner, including former presidential nominee and U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole.

Dole said Boehner had been plagued by, in his words, a group of Republican naysayers.

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Representative Tim Huelskamp and House Speaker John Boehner, who announced today he was going to step down at the end of October, have had their differences.

In 2012, Boehner removed Huelskamp  from the House Budget and Agriculture Committees
The first time in more than 50 years that Kansas’ 1st Congressional District representative wasn’t on the House Ag Committee.

Huelskamp responded to the resignation on social media.

Today the establishment lost. #Boehner

— Cong. Tim Huelskamp (@CongHuelskamp) September 25, 2015

The only thing @SpeakerBoehner has to lose now is his #prolife principles. #Boehner #PPSellsBabyParts #DefundPP — Cong. Tim Huelskamp (@CongHuelskamp) September 25, 2015

Earlier this year, Huelskamp voted against Boehner’s re-election to the House leadership post.

Huelskamp was one of 25 Republicans voting against the Ohio representative’s re-election instead voting for Florida Rep. Daniel Webster.

Huelskamp is expected to release an additional statement on the resignation later Friday.