Congressman Collin Peterson (D-Minnesota) serves on the Agriculture Committee, its Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture, its Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development, and Research and its Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management, where he is Ranking Member.

He also serves on the Select Committee on Intelligence, its Subcommittee on Human Intelligence, Analysis, and Counterintelligence, its Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence and its Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security.

First elected to Congress in 1990, Peterson has focused on budget policy and farm policy. He has worked to reduce the national debt, create a fairer tax code, reform campaign finance laws, increase agricultural investment programs, protect family farms, preserve gaming and wildlife refuges and expand Medicare to include prescription drug benefits. He has also secured funding for farm support programs, utilities projects, airport construction and public services in his district.

Before his election to Congress, Peterson served six years in the Minnesota National Guard, worked as an accountant and spent ten years in the Minnesota State Senate.

Rep. Collin Peterson's Official Website

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