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

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 was renamed for the 115th United States Congress (2017).

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".^[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]

Members

118th Congress

Majority	Minority
valign=top	John Fetterman, Pennsylvania, Chair Sherrod Brown, Ohio Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota Kirsten Gillibrand, New York Raphael Warnock, Georgia Cory Booker, New Jersey	valign=top	Mike Braun, Indiana, Ranking Member Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Joni Ernst, Iowa Roger Marshall, Kansas Tommy Tuberville, Alabama
Ex officio
valign=top	Debbie Stabenow, Michigan	valign=top	John Boozman, Arkansas

External links

• Subcommittee webpage

Notes and References

1. Web site: Subcommittee Assignments - U.S. Senate Ag Committee . ag.senate.gov . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090823194237/http://ag.senate.gov/site/subcmtes.html . 2009-08-23.
2. Book: Nestle, Marion . Marion Nestle

   . Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health . Marion Nestle . 2nd . . 2007 . 978-0-520-25403-9 . 38–42.