#THISisMSSenRace

Travis Childers voting record:

Bill Name	ChildersVote	Democrat Majority Vote
Dec. 21, 2010 HR 3082 Continuing Appropriations	Nay	192 Yea 19 Nay
Dec. 15, 2010 HR 2965 Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act	Nay	235 Yea 15 Nay
Dec. 8, 2010 HR 5281 DREAM Act	Nay	208 Yea 38 Nay
July 30, 2010 HR 3534 Offshore Drilling Regulations and Other Energy Law Amendments	Nay	207 Yea 39 Nay
March 21, 2010 HR 3590 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act	Nay	219 Yea 34 Nay
March 21, 2010 HR 4872 Health Care Reconciliation Act	Nay	220 Yea 33 Nay
March 25, 2010 HR 4872 Health Care Reconciliation Act	Nay	220 Yea 32 Nay
Dec. 16, 2009 HR 4314 Increasing the National Public Debt Limit	Nay	218 Yea 38 Nay
Dec. 10, 2009 HR 3288 2009-2010 Omnibus Appropriations	Nay	220 Yea 28 Nay
Oct. 29, 2009 HR 2996 Continuing Appropriations Extension and 2009-2010 Department of Interior, Environmental Protection Agency, and Related Appropriations	Nay	237 Yea 14 Nay
Feb. 26, 2009 HR 1105 2009 Budget Bill	Nay	228 Yea 20 Nay

Ratings and Endorsements:

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2009	NARAL Pro-Choice America - Positions	0%
2010	NARAL Pro-Choice America - Positions	0%
2009-2010	National Right to Life Committee - Positions	100%
2009	Campaign for Working Families - Positions	81%
2007-2008	Campaign for Working Families - Positions on Conservative Issues	100%
2010	Planned Parenthood Action Fund - Positions	0%
2009-2010	American Civil Liberties Union - Positions	19%
2009-2010	Americans for Prosperity - Positions	50%
2009-2010	United States Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation - Positions on International Middle East Human Rights	-4%
2008	National Rifle Association - Candidate Positions on Gun Rights	92%
2009-2010	Service Employees International Union (SEIU) - Positions	34%
2009-2010	Christian Coalition of America - Positions	100%
2009	Disabled American Veterans - House of Representatives Score	100%

Voted against the DREAM Act amnesty in 2010.
Rep. Childers voted against a motion to add the DREAM Act amnesty to H.R. 5281, a non-germane bill dealing with litigation against Federal officers.
The DREAM Act amnesty passed by a vote of 216-198.

Cosponsored Anti-Illegal Immigration Resolution in 2010.
Rep. Childers cosponsored H. Res. 1026, the Bipartisan Reform of Immigration through Defining Good Enforcement Resolution. This resolution, whose main sponsors are Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Rep. Frank Kratovil (D-MD), calls for the House to 1) pass legislation mandating the use of the E-Verify system, 2) pass legislation ensuring that America's borders are fully secure, and 3) oppose all amnesty legislation in 2010.

Rep. Childers voted against the rule to H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act.
By opposing the rule, Rep. Childers signaled his/her opposition to a health bill that creates rewards or incentives for illegal immigration.
The rule passed 242-192.

Cosponsored a bill to increase border security and require workplace verification in 2009.
Rep. Childers is cosponsoring H.R. 3308, the Secure America Through Verification and Enforcement (SAVE) Act of 2009.

Supported an amendment to deter illegal immigration in 2009.
Rep. Childers supported the King amendment (250) to H.R. 2892, the 2010 DHS appropriations bill. This amendment requires Immigration and Customs Enforcement to remove the lookout posts constructed by drug smugglers, thereby making it more difficult for drug smugglers and reducing illegal immigration associated with illegal drug activity.
This amendment passed 240-187-1.

Supported an amendment to require DHS contractors to use E-Verify in 2009.
Rep. Childers supported the King amendment (253) to H.R. 2892, the DHS appropriations bill. The amendment requires all DHS contractors and subcontractors to use the E-Verify system to verify the employment eligibility of their employees.
The amendment passed 349-84.

Voted in favor of employment verification in 2008.
Rep. Childers voted in favor of bill, HR 6633, to reauthorize the E-Verify program for a period of 5 years.
The bill passed by a vote of 407-2.

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source:
http://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/101982/travis-childers#.VFKVyPnF9vA
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/travis_childers/412262
https://www.numbersusa.com/content/my/congress/1279/votingrecord

#THISisFalseEquivalence

According to a statement from the White House, Obama condemned the “outrageous attacks” in his phone conversation with Harper. The president was referring to both Wednesday’s shootings on Parliament Hill and the attack on two soldiers in Quebec on Oct. 20.
Obama said it is not yet known what motivated the shootings.

Washington confirmed that a Palestinian teenager shot dead by Israeli troops was a US citizen -- the second time this week an American child has fallen victim to the ongoing conflict.
The army said that the youth killed Friday had been about to hurl a petrol bomb at Israeli motorists near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the US "expresses its deepest condolences to the family of a US citizen minor who was killed by the Israeli Defense Forces".

Three-month-old Chaya Zissel Braun, the baby girl killed today in Jerusalem during a vehicular terrorist attack, was an American citizen, a US official confirmed to The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday night.
The girl was thrown from her stroller as a car swerved into the Ammunition Hill light rail station, injuring seven others.
"The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms today’s terrorist attack in Jerusalem," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in an evening statement. "We express our deepest condolences to the family of the baby, reportedly an American citizen, who was killed in this despicable attack, and extend our prayers for a full recovery to those injured. We urge all sides to maintain calm and avoid escalating tensions in the wake of this incident."

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source:
Obama pledges solidarity with Canada, says U.S. 'shaken' by shootings
Israel troops kill US-Palestinian teen in West Bank
Baby girl killed in Jerusalem is an American, US official says

#THISisThinkingDisorder

By some estimates, 1 percent of the male population continues, long after puberty, to find themselves attracted to prepubescent children. These people are living with pedophilia, a sexual attraction to prepubescents that often constitutes a mental illness. Unfortunately, our laws are failing them and, consequently, ignoring opportunities to prevent child abuse.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders defines pedophilia as an intense and recurrent sexual interest in prepubescent children, and a disorder if it causes a person “marked distress or interpersonal difficulty” or if the person acts on his interests. Yet our laws ignore pedophilia until after the commission of a sexual offense, emphasizing punishment, not prevention.

A second misconception is that pedophilia is a choice. Recent research, while often limited to sex offenders — because of the stigma of pedophilia — suggests that the disorder may have neurological origins. Pedophilia could result from a failure in the brain to identify which environmental stimuli should provoke a sexual response. M.R.I.s of sex offenders with pedophilia show fewer of the neural pathways known as white matter in their brains. Men with pedophilia are three times more likely to be left-handed or ambidextrous, a finding that strongly suggests a neurological cause. Some findings also suggest that disturbances in neurodevelopment in utero or early childhood increase the risk of pedophilia. Studies have also shown that men with pedophilia have, on average, lower scores on tests of visual-spatial ability and verbal memory.

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source:

Pedophilia: A Disorder, Not a Crime - NYTimes.com