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Former member of Congress · last served 110th Congress

Official portrait of Rep. Charles W. "Chip" Pickering

Charles W. "Chip" Pickering

REPUBLICAN U.S. Representative · MississippiHouse 1997–2009 (MS-3)

Charles Pickering was a Republican U.S. representative from Mississippi, first elected to Congress in 1997, who sponsored 3 bills that became law (105th–110th Congress).

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61Bills & resolutions sponsored105th–110th Congress (excludes amendments)
8Passed a chamberof 61 bills & resolutions sponsored
3Became law2 substantive + 1 ceremonial · 105th–110th Congress
—Broke with partyNo roll calls in PORKER’s records (they start in 2011)
—Missed votesNo roll calls in PORKER’s records (they start in 2011)
—Pork: own shareFY2024 earmarks: not in office

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

Top bills sponsored

Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.

Elections Rep. Pickering has won

Rep. Pickering has won 6 U.S. House elections (1996–2006). Of the contested races, margins ran from 24.9 to 69.1 points.

010204060Margin of victory, points (axis starts at 0)1996, MS-3: won by 24.9 points1996MS-31998, MS-3: won by 69.1 points19982000, MS-3: won by 47.4 points20002002, MS-3: won by 28.8 points20022004, MS-3: won by 66.3 points20042006, MS-3: won by 61.6 points2006
Democratic winRepublican winseat changed partyunopposed
Elections won6 in the data (1976–2024); losses are not listed
Closest win: 24.9 points1996, MS-3
Won an open seat or took one from the other party1 of 6 elections (open seat or changed party)
Seat history, Mississippi’s 3rd districtWinners, most recent three: Charles Pickering (R) 1996–2006 → Gregg Harper (R) 2008–2016 → Michael Guest (R) 2018–2024. Elections shown, not terms; special elections not included.

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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 3rd district done while Rep. Pickering served?

2005 to 2008 in MS-3: 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 about the same.

Typical household income · after inflationU.S. $76.2KMS-3 $56.8KMississippi $55.3K
MS-3: $56.1K in 2005 → $56.8K in 2008
MS-3 about the sameMississippi up 4%U.S. up 2%
Share of people below the poverty lineMississippi 21.2%MS-3 18.8%U.S. 13.2%
MS-3: 18.2% in 2005 → 18.8% in 2008
MS-3 about the sameMississippi about the sameU.S. about the same
Share of workers looking for a jobMississippi 7.8%MS-3 6.7%U.S. 6.4%
MS-3: 7.7% in 2005 → 6.7% in 2008
MS-3 about the sameMississippi down 1.5 pointsU.S. down 0.5 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 3rd district during Pickering’s time representing it (1997 to 2009). 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-3 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022 (the survey year the new lines first appear), but every survey year in Pickering’s term so far (2005 to 2008) uses the same lines, so they can be compared. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.

See the full 20-year record →Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates (tables B19013, B17001, B23001) and BLS CPI-U-RS for inflation, retrieved October 18, 2026. “About the same” means the change is inside the 90% margins of error. Who held the seat: Congress.gov member service records, year level.

Official records on bills this member sponsored

110th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 5 bills sponsored.

RecordBillsSource
Bills sponsored5Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them →
With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement0None listed
With a CBO cost estimate listed0None listed
With a committee report listed0None listed
Evidence
How counted
Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 110th 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.

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Data as of Oct 26, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.