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Subcommittee on Production and Price Competitiveness
Jurisdiction over legislation on agricultural commodities, including cotton, dairy products, feed grains, wheat, tobacco, peanuts, sugar, wool, rice, oilseeds and soybeans; price and income support programs.

Elizabeth Dole, Chair

Kent Conrad, Ranking Democrat

Mitch McConnell

Thomas A. Daschle

Pat Roberts

Zell Miller

Saxby Chambliss

Max Baucus

Norm Coleman

Blanche L. Lincoln

Charles E. Grassley

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Subcommittee on Marketing, Inspection, and Product Promotion
Jurisdiction over legislation on foreign agricultural trade; foreign market development; agriculture product promotion and domestic marketing programs; oversight of international commodity agreements and export controls on agricultural commodities; foreign assistance programs and Food for Peace; marketing orders; inspection and certification of meat, flowers, fruit, vegetables and livestock.

James M. Talent, Chair

Max Baucus, Ranking Democrat

Pat Roberts

E. Benjamin Nelson

Peter Fitzgerald

Kent Conrad

Saxby Chambliss

Debbie Stabenow

Charles E. Grassley

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Subcommittee on Forestry, Conservation, and Rural Revitalization
Jurisdiction over rural development legislation and rural electrification legislation; oversight of rural electrification, agricultural credit, the Farm Credit System, the Farm Credit Administration, and the Farmers Home Administration and its successor agencies; and crop insurance; forestry in general and forest reserves that were acquired from state, local, or private sources, soil conservation, stream channelization, watershed and flood control programs involving structures of less than 4,000 acre-feet storage capacity.

Mike Crapo, Chair

Blanche L. Lincoln, Ranking Democrat

Richard G. Lugar

Mark Dayton

Norm Coleman

Patrick J. Leahy

James M. Talent

Thomas A. Daschle

Mitch McConnell

E. Benjamin Nelson

Pat Roberts

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Subcommittee on Research, Nutrition, and General Legislation
Jurisdiction over legislation on agricultural education and research; animal welfare; legislation on or relating to food, nutrition and hunger; commodity donations; food stamps; national school lunch program; school breakfast program; summer food program for children; special milk program for children; special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children; nutritional programs for the elderly; Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act; and general legislation.

Peter Fitzgerald, Chair

Patrick J. Leahy, Ranking Democrat

Richard G. Lugar

Debbie Stabenow

Mitch McConnell

Zell Miller

Mike Crapo

Mark Dayton

Elizabeth Dole

 

 

 

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