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House Agriculture Subcommittees for the 111th Congress:
Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and ResearchTim Holden, (D-Pennsylvania) ChairJurisdiction: Soil, water, and resource conservation, small watershed program, energy and biobased energy production, rural electrification, agricultural credit, and agricultural research, education and extension services. Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition, and ForestryJoe Baca, (D-California) ChairJurisdiction: Agency oversight, review and analysis, special investigations, food stamps, nutrition and consumer programs, forestry in general, and forest reserves other than those created from the public domain. Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk ManagementLeonard L. Boswell, (D-Iowa) ChairJurisdiction: 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 and commodity exchanges. Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic AgricultureDennis A. Cardoza, (D-California) ChairJurisdiction: Fruits and vegetables, honey and bees, marketing and promotion orders, plant pesticides, quarantine, adulteration of seeds, and insect pests, and organic agriculture. Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and PoultryDavid Scott, (D-Georgia) ChairJurisdiction: Livestock, dairy, poultry, meat, seafood and seafood products, inspection, marketing, and promotion of such commodities, aquaculture, animal welfare, and grazing. Subcommittee on Rural Development, Biotechnology, Specialty Crops, and Foreign AgricultureMike McIntyre, (D-North Carolina) ChairJurisdiction: Peanuts, sugar, tobacco, marketing orders relating to such commodities, rural development, farm security and family farming matters, biotechnology, foreign agricultural assistance, and trade promotion programs, generally. Chairman Peterson and Ranking Member Lucas are ex-officio members of all subcommittees. |