Representative Travis Childers News

Rep. Travis Childers, D-Miss., has voted in favor of the Fire Grants Reauthorization Act to provide grants to local fire departments for upgrades.

Mississippi farmers hard hit by heavy rains and floods could get federal disaster aid faster under a bill proposed by Mississippi senators.

By Davida Hill-Beckum Daily Times Leader United States Armed Forces will soon receive assistance from spy equipment manufactured in the Golden Triangle.

It's time to make some phone calls. It will take less than 10 minutes. Here are the Democrats who support the auditing of the fed.

Farouk Shami will make his entry into the Democratic primary for Governor official tomorrow afternoon at his business' headquarters in Houston; details are on his website.

In front of a large crowd of community and business leaders and elected officials, the ribbon was cut Monday on Stark Aerospace's new 86,000-square-foot facility at the Golden Triangle Regional Airport.

Stark Aerospace held the grand opening celebration of its new facility in Columbus, MS, today.

Sorting out some thoughts on a few things before we get too distracted by this beautiful Mississippi fall: The House passing a health care reform bill went about as expected as far as Mississippi representatives are concerned.

About 20 protesters showed up at a fundraiser for U.S. Rep. Travis Childers on Friday, toting signs and yelling 'health care now' in opposition to his recent no vote in Washington, D.C. To avoid the crowd, Childers went through the back door of the Big Bad Breakfast restaurant, prompting some to call Childers a 'coward.' Oxford native Ocie Cook, ...

Members of the Republican Party's right wing have declared political jihad on what they call RINOs .

By Julie Ardery and Bill Bishop, DailyYonder.com , Guest Writer, 11-09-09 39 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives opposed the Democrat-sponsored bill to change the nation's health insurance system.

Memphis police have identified the man who died in an accident that followed an attempted traffic stop early Tuesday.

Following the 1992 election -- the "Year of the Woman" -- women made up less than 11 percent of the incoming House members of the 103rd Congress and 6 percent of the Senate.

IF THE late Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead were alive today to witness the nation's health care reform debate, he'd probably say something like this: 'What a long, strange trip it's been, man.' Wild-eyed, foaming-at-the-mouth citizens shouting down trembling congressmen at town hall meetings, erstwhile vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin ...

Efforts to fix a fallen bridge on one of West Point's busiest roads have met rejection after rejection.

The House Financial Services Committee voted 39 to 29 on Thursday to approve a bill that would create a consumer financial protection agency, clearing the first hurdle to enacting a key priority in the Obama administration's regulatory reform plan.

The House Financial Services Committee voted on Thursday to create an agency to protect consumers from predatory lending, deceptive credit card terms and other abuses.

Creating a federal agency to regulate home loans, credit cards, savings accounts and other financial services won the approval of a key House committee on Thursday in spite of loud complaints from banks and businesses.

The purpose of "Tea Party" protests across America is to remind elected officials that they work at the will and pleasure of voters, Mississippi Tea Party founder Don Daniels said Saturday.

Touting messages of progress and economic development, some of the state's most influential people gathered Monday at East Mississippi Community College-Golden Triangle to mark what Joe Higgins called 'the end of the beginning' of the Golden Triangle Regional Global Industrial Aerospace Park project.