Rep. Travis Childers

Former Representative from Mississippi’s 1^st District, Democrat

Childers, a Democrat, was the representative for Mississippi's 1^st congressional district from 2008 to 2010.

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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 was a member of the House of Representatives in 2010. 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

Issue Areas

Childers sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Taxation (42%) Crime and Law Enforcement (25%) Education (17%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (17%)

Recent Bills

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

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Voting Record

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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. ProPublica has tracked 2 explanations for these missed votes. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2008 Apr-Jun	139	1	0.7%	16^th
2008 Jul-Sep	205	1	0.5%	14^th
2008 Oct-Dec	15	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jan-Mar	174	1	0.6%	21^st
2009 Apr-Jun	303	4	1.3%	30^th
2009 Jul-Sep	268	5	1.9%	51^st
2009 Oct-Dec	246	2	0.8%	17^th
2010 Jan-Mar	195	5	2.6%	42^nd
2010 Apr-Jun	219	12	5.5%	71^st
2010 Jul-Sep	151	2	1.3%	34^th
2010 Nov-Dec	99	12	12.1%	78^th

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
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

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