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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.

Mitch McConnell, Chair

Kent Conrad, Ranking Democrat

Thad Cochran

Mark Dayton

Pat Roberts

Max Baucus

Rick Santorum

Patrick Leahy

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

Mitch McConnell

E. Benjamin Nelson

Craig Thomas

Ken Salazar

Pat Roberts

Kent Conrad

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

Patrick J. Leahy

Thad Cochran

E. Benjamin Nelson

James M. Talent

Mark Dayton

Craig Thomas

Ken Salazar

Norm Coleman

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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.

Rick Santorum, Chair

Patrick J. Leahy, Ranking Democrat

Richard G. Lugar

Debbie Stabenow

Mike Crapo

Blanche Lincoln

Thad Cochran

Max Baucus

 

 

Mitch McConnell

 

 

 

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