WAFB - Local News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
Democratic U.S. Rep. Travis Childers has again defeated Republican Greg Davis in a race for the 1st District in north Mississippi.
Vote By Issues! (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
Yahoo! News: Democratic Party Bloomberg - Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) — Running in a special congressional election last May, Republican Greg Davis used a tried-and-true Mississippi tactic: a commercial linking Democrat Travis Childers to liberals, especially presidential candidate Barack Obama. Go to Source
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
COLUMBUS, MS (MARKET WIRE) U.S. Senator Thad Cochran, U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, and U.S. Representative Travis Childers will be making remarks on October 16, 2008, at a ribbon cutting to celebrate the major expansion of Aurora Flight Sciences' Mississippi facility.
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
Travis Childers , Mississippi: I feel it is morally reprehensible that the middle class is not only suffering from a failing economy and rising costs but also now is being asked to foot the bill for Wall Street's bad decisions and reckless management as a result of deregulation. We ain't gonna have him on issues of Choice or stuff like FISA, and if we get him 50 percent of the time on votes we'll...
Gun Guys (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Violence Policy Center). Washington, DC–The U.S. House of Representatives today passed a National Rifle Association-backed bill sponsored by Representative Travis Childers (D-MS) that would virtually wipe out any regulation of guns by the District of Columbia, endangering citizens, visitors, and public officials while adversely impacting...
Political Insider | ajc.com (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Late last night, the U.S. House voted to rewrite the District of Columbia’s rules on gun ownership. Two Georgia congressmen took part in the argument. The bill was sponsored by a Democrat, newly elected Travis Childers of Mississippi, and was...
DCist (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Legislation revising the District's gun regulations passed the House today in a 266-152 vote. From the AP: The bill, sponsored by Mississippi freshman Democrat Travis Childers, repeals the District's semiautomatic handgun ban and overturns D.C. law requiring that firearms kept in the home be locked up and inoperable. It allows D.C. residents to purchase guns from federally licensed dealers in Maryland...
Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
Anzalone Liszt for Travis Childers (9/7-10, likely voters): Travis Childers (D-inc) : 51 Greg Davis (R) : 39 Undecided : 10 (MoE: ?4.4%) The people can't help but like Childers. His favorable/unfavorable rating is 55-24, while Greg Davis is still stuck in a special election hangover, with only a 40-32 favorable rating. Anzalone has had a great track record with this race. Their polling correctly predicted...
Southeast Farm Press RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Newly-elected Congressman Travis Childers, D-Miss., came to the summer meeting of the Southern Cotton Ginners Association to listen to the issues and concerns of the ginner/farmers, and he got an earful about energy prices, spiraling input costs, dysfunctional commodity markets, labor shortages, dangers to cotton’s infrastructure, and worries about the future of family farms.
The Thorn Papers (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Speaking of Greg Davis' invisibility, what about his opponent? Well, Rep. Childers is back from Washington and using the five-week break to hear from his constiuents. According to the D-J , Childers will be visiting each of his district's 24 counties during the recess: Childers' first stops included Itawamba and Lee counties, where the newly elected congressman visited with officials and introduced...
Truman's Take (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Bi-Partisan Bill Introduced to Restore the Second Amendment Rights of D.C. Residents: This week, in a bi-partisan effort, Congressmen Travis Childers (D-Miss.), John Dingell (D-Mich.), John Tanner (D-Tenn.) , Mike Ross (D-Ark.), and Mark Souder (R-Ind.), along with 47 of their colleagues, introduced the "Second Amendment Enforcement Act" ( H.R. 6691 ). This critical legislation overturns D.C.'s recently...
Blog O'Stuff (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Full press release here . Fairfax, VA -- Today, in a bi-partisan effort, Congressmen Travis Childers, John Dingell, John Tanner, Mike Ross and Mark Souder , along with 47 of their colleagues, introduced the Second Amendment Enforcement Act ( H.R. 6691 ). This critical legislation overturn s D.C.'s recently enacted emergency laws that continue to defy the recent Supreme Court ruling by continuing to...
TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Glenn Greenwald and Ed Kilgore debate the virtues of challenging incumbent Democrats, or as Ed puts it, "settling scores." I think a more basic problem needs to be addressed first, the bizarre penchant of the Netroots to concentrate its resources on electing Dems like Travis Childers and Heath Shuler. Now I have nothing against either of these Dems - they represent the views of their particular districts....
Iran Nuclear Watch (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
On July 17, Representative Donald Cazayoux (D-LA), along with Representatives Ron Klein (D-FL), Patrick Murphy (D-PA), Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), Travis Childers (D-MS), Nancy Boyda (D-KS), Paul Hodes (D-NH) and Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH), introduced H.R. 6545 , a bill "To require the Director of National Intelligence to conduct a national intelligence assessment on national security and energy security...
Political Ticker (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Democrat Travis Childers won a Mississippi House seat in May long held by Republicans. WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans lost three recent elections when customary campaign themes failed to sway voters and their candidates could not overcome the "negative perception of the national party," according to an internal review that underscores the potential for widespread [...]
