Former member of Congress · last served 111th Congress
Travis Childers
Travis Childers was a Democratic U.S. representative from Mississippi, first elected to Congress in 2008.
How we count: “Broke with party” is a yes/no roll call where the member voted against most of their own party on that vote (party as recorded; even splits not counted). “Pork: own share” splits each earmark shared by several members evenly among them.
Recent votes
No recorded roll-call votes in PORKER’s records. Roll-call records start in 2011.
5 most recent bills
- H.R. 6242 International Child Protection Act of 2010Dec 20, 2010 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
- H.R. 4822 To provide for the settlement of claims arising from the failure of the Natural Resource Conservation Service (and former Soil Conservation Service) to carry…Jun 18, 2010 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research.
- H.R. 5162 To restore Second Amendment rights in the District of Columbia.Apr 28, 2010 · Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
- H.R. 5150 To restore Second Amendment rights in the District of Columbia.Apr 27, 2010 · Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
- H.R. 4292 America's Better Classrooms Act of 2009Dec 11, 2009 · Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Top bills sponsored
- H.Con.Res. 95 (111th) Recognizing the importance of the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Experimental Forests and Ranges.Passed a chamber
- H.R. 6691 (110th) Second Amendment Enforcement Act135 cosponsors
- H.R. 3044 (111th) To impose an 18-month moratorium on the Home Valuation Code of Conduct.125 cosponsors
- H.Res. 886 (111th) Supporting the goals and purposes of National Teach Ag Day.37 cosponsors
- H.Res. 239 (111th) Honoring the 125th anniversary of Mississippi University for Women.4 cosponsors
- H.R. 3640 (111th) To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend and expand the first-time homebuyers credit and to provide a loss deduction on the sale of a principal…3 cosponsors
- H.R. 1986 (111th) To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to restore the estate tax, increase the estate…1 cosponsor
- H.Con.Res. 422 (110th) Recognizing the importance of the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Experimental Forests and Ranges on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the…1 cosponsor
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Elections Rep. Childers has won
Rep. Childers has won 1 U.S. House election (2008–2008). Of the contested races, margins ran from 10.6 to 10.6 points.
Full election history for this seat →
Source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. House V15 / U.S. Senate V8 (CC0), retrieved 2026-10-18; winners matched to member records by seat and term. Results run through the 2024 elections; nothing from 2026 is shown until it is certified. A margin is a fact about one election, never a score of how well a member represents anyone, and PORKER does not rank members by it.
How has Mississippi’s 1st district done while Rep. Childers served?
2008 to 2010 in MS-1: typical household income was about the same after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was about the same, and the share of workers looking for a job was up 5.4 points.
Each mini chart has its own scale, fitted to its lines (it does not start at zero), so compare the numbers, not the heights. Teal = district, oxblood = state, grey = U.S.
While they served, not because of them. This shows what happened in Mississippi’s 1st district during Childers’s time representing it (2008 to 2011). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.
One set of district lines. MS-1 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022 (the survey year the new lines first appear), but every survey year in Childers’s term so far (2008 to 2010) uses the same lines, so they can be compared. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
111th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 11 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 11 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 0 | None listed |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 0 | None listed |
| With a committee report listed | 0 | None listed |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 111th Congress, read from the stored Congress.gov bill records
- Fields
- cboCostEstimates, committeeReports, constitutionalAuthorityStatementText, notes
- PORKER copy refreshed
- October 26, 2026 (nightly)
Read this first. These are counts of records Congress.gov lists. Many bills never get a CBO estimate or a report, so a zero is not a mark against a member. We never show this as a score.
Data as of Oct 26, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.