Rep. Travis Childers

Sponsorship Analysis

Our unique analysis of the bills Childers sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.

Each dot in the chart below is a member of the House of Representatives. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Childers is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)

Bills Sponsored

Some of Childers’s most recently sponsored bills include...

• H.R. 6242 (111th): International Child Protection Act of 2010
• H.R. 5162 (111th): To restore Second Amendment rights in the District of Columbia.
• H.R. 5150 (111th): To restore Second Amendment rights in the District of Columbia.
• H.R. 4822 (111th): To provide for the settlement of claims arising from the failure of ...
• H.R. 4292 (111th): America’s Better Classrooms Act of 2009
• H.Res. 886 (111th): Supporting the goals and purposes of National Teach Ag Day.
• H.R. 3640 (111th): To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and expand ...

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Voting Record

From May 2008 to Dec 2010, Childers missed 45 of 2,014 roll call votes, which is 2.2%. This is better than the median of 3.1% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2010. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

• The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
• Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
• THOMAS, for sponsored bills