Travis Childers named to House Agriculture Committee

Travis Childers was named to the House Agriculture Committee on Monday. We reported in the weeks leading up to the special election runoff that Speaker Pelosi had saved a spot on this important committee for Travis if he should win.

Childers says he believes his quest for the ag committee seat helped him with the election, which he won by 8 percentage points, defeating a Republican, Southaven Mayor Greg Davis.

“About a week before the election, a member of the House leadership called me and asked what they could do to help me,” Childers said in an interview. “I told them I thought naming me to the Agriculture Committee probably would be the best thing they could do.”