The U.S. Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research is one of five subcommittees of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.
Name changes The subcommittee has had several names in recent years. The current name has been in effect since the 117th United States Congress (2021).
It was previously: 115th-116th Congresses: Nutrition, Agricultural Research, and Specialty Crops 112th-114th Congresses: Subcommittee on Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Food and Agricultural Research Prior to 112th Congress: Subcommittee on Nutrition and Hunger, Nutrition and Family Farms.
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". 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.
Members, 119th Congress
MajorityMinority Mitch McConnell, Kentucky, Chair Roger Marshall, Kansas John Hoeven, North Dakota Tommy Tuberville, Alabama Jim Justice, West Virginia Chuck Grassley, Iowa Ben Ray Luján, New Mexico, Ranking Member Raphael Warnock, Georgia John Fetterman, Pennsylvania Tina Smith, Minnesota Cory Booker, New Jersey Ex officio John Boozman, Arkansas Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota
Historical membership rosters 118th Congress MajorityMinority John Fetterman, Pennsylvania, Chair Sherrod Brown, Ohio Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota Kirsten Gillibrand, New York Raphael Warnock, Georgia Cory Booker, New Jersey Mike Braun, Indiana, Ranking Member Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Joni Ernst, Iowa Roger Marshall, Kansas Tommy Tuberville, Alabama Ex officio Debbie Stabenow, Michigan John Boozman, Arkansas
References
External links Subcommittee webpage