Peterson announces Ag subcommittee ranking members
January 22, 2013 | 05:05 PM
House Agriculture Committee ranking member Collin Peterson, D-Minn., today announced the Democratic ranking members and membership for the committee’s five subcommittees.
Peterson will serve as an ex officio member of all subcommittees.
Jurisdiction: Soil, water, and resource conservation, small watershed program, energy and biobased energy production, rural electrification, forestry in general and forest reserves other than those created from the public domain.
Jurisdiction: Agency oversight, review and analysis, special investigations, food stamps, nutrition and consumer programs.
Jurisdiction: Program and markets related to cotton, cottonseed, wheat, feed grains, soybeans, oilseeds, rice, dry beans, peas, lentils, the Commodity Credit Corporation, risk management, including crop insurance, commodity exchanges, and specialty crops.
Jurisdiction: Fruits and vegetables, honey and bees, marketing and promotion orders, plant pesticides, quarantine, adulteration of seeds and insect pests, and organic agriculture, research, education and extension, biotechnology and foreign agriculture assistance, and trade promotion programs, generally.
Jurisdiction: Livestock, dairy, poultry, meat, seafood and seafood products, inspection, marketing, and promotion of such commodities, aquaculture, animal welfare and grazing, rural development, farm security and family farming matters, and agricultural credit.
Peterson will serve as an ex officio member of all subcommittees.
Conservation, Energy and Forestry
Jurisdiction: Soil, water, and resource conservation, small watershed program, energy and biobased energy production, rural electrification, forestry in general and forest reserves other than those created from the public domain.
- Tim Walz, D-Minn., ranking member
- Gloria Negrete McLeod, D-Calif.
- Ann Kuster, D-N.H.
- Rick Nolan, D-Minn.
- Mike McIntyre, D-N.C.
- Kurt Schrader, D-Ore.
- Suzan DelBene, D-Wash.
Department Operations, Oversight and Nutrition
Jurisdiction: Agency oversight, review and analysis, special investigations, food stamps, nutrition and consumer programs.
- Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, ranking member
- Jim McGovern, D-Mass.
- Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-N.M.
- Gloria Negrete McLeod, D-Calif.
- One vacancy
General Farm Commodities and Risk Management
Jurisdiction: Program and markets related to cotton, cottonseed, wheat, feed grains, soybeans, oilseeds, rice, dry beans, peas, lentils, the Commodity Credit Corporation, risk management, including crop insurance, commodity exchanges, and specialty crops.
- David Scott, D-Ga., ranking member
- Filemon Vela, D-Texas
- Pete Gallego, D-Texas
- Bill Enyart, D-Ill.
- Juan Vargas, D-Calif.
- Cherie Bustos, D-Ill.
- Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y.
- Tim Walz, D-Minn.
- Gloria Negrete McLeod, D-Calif.
- Jim Costa, D- Calif.
- Two vacancies
Horticulture, Research, Biotechnology and Foreign Agriculture
Jurisdiction: Fruits and vegetables, honey and bees, marketing and promotion orders, plant pesticides, quarantine, adulteration of seeds and insect pests, and organic agriculture, research, education and extension, biotechnology and foreign agriculture assistance, and trade promotion programs, generally.
- Kurt Schrader, D-Ore., ranking member
- Suzan DelBene, D-Wash.
- Jim Costa, D-Calif.
- Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio
- Ann Kuster, D-N.H.
- Juan Vargas, D-Calif.
- Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y.
Livestock, Rural Development and Credit
Jurisdiction: Livestock, dairy, poultry, meat, seafood and seafood products, inspection, marketing, and promotion of such commodities, aquaculture, animal welfare and grazing, rural development, farm security and family farming matters, and agricultural credit.
- Jim Costa, D-Calif.
- Mike McIntyre, D-N.C.
- David Scott, D-Ga.
- Filemon Vela, D-Texas
- Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-N.M.
- Pete Gallego, D-Texas
- Bill Enyart, D-Ill.
- Cherie Bustos, D-Ill.
- Kurt Schrader, D-Ore.
- Two vacancies