United States Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Food and Agricultural Research

TheU.S. Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Food and Agricultural Research is one of five subcommittees of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.

1 Jurisdiction
2 Members, 112th Congress
3 References
4 External links

Jurisdiction

This subcommittee has jurisdiction over "domestic and international nutrition and food assistance and hunger prevention; school and child nutrition programs; local and healthy food initiatives; futures, options and derivatives; pesticides; and general legislation".^[1] The origins of the subcommittee lay in the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs that was active from 1968 to 1977 before being subsumed into the Agriculture Committee.^[2]

The subcommittee was renamed for the 112th United States Congress (2011). It was previously the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Hunger, Nutrition and Family Farms.

Members, 112th Congress

The subcommittee is chaired by Democrat Bob Casey, Jr. of Pennsylvania, and the Ranking Minority Member is Republican Richard Lugar of Indiana.

Majority	Minority
Bob Casey, Jr., Pennsylvania, Chairman Patrick Leahy, Vermont Tom Harkin, Iowa Sherrod Brown, Ohio Michael Bennet, Colorado Kirsten Gillibrand, New York	Richard Lugar, Indiana, Ranking Member Thad Cochran, Mississippi Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Mike Johanns, Nebraska John Hoeven, North Dakota
Ex officio
Debbie Stabenow, Arkansas	Pat Roberts, Kansas

References

^ http://ag.senate.gov/site/subcmtes.html
^ Nestle, Marion (2007). Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (2nd ed.). University of California Press. pp. 38–42. ISBN 0520254031.

External links

Subcommittee webpage

Current United States Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Subcommittees

Commodities, Markets, Trade and Risk Management • Jobs, Rural Economic Growth and Energy Innovation • Conservation, Forestry and Natural Resources • Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Food and Agricultural Research • Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Marketing and Agriculture Security

Current United States congressional committees

Senate (list)	Aging (Special) Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Appropriations Armed Services Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Budget Commerce, Science and Transportation Energy and Natural Resources Environment and Public Works Ethics (Select) Finance Foreign Relations Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Indian Affairs Intelligence (Select) Judiciary Rules and Administration Small Business and Entrepreneurship Veterans' Affairs

House (list)	Agriculture Appropriations Armed Services Budget Education and the Workforce Energy and Commerce Ethics Financial Services Foreign Affairs Homeland Security House Administration Intelligence (Permanent Select) Judiciary Natural Resources Oversight and Government Reform Rules Science, Space and Technology Small Business Transportation and Infrastructure Veterans' Affairs Ways and Means (Whole)

Joint (list)	(Conference) Deficit Reduction (Select) Economic Inaugural Ceremonies (Special) Library Printing Taxation

Defunct committees

United States Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Food and Agricultural Research

Contents

Jurisdiction

Members, 112th Congress

References

External links