| The list of House Ag Committee Republicans is online! Note that "Mean Jean" Schmidt is in charge of all nutrition programs AND organic agriculture. Talk about a freakin' nightmare! Let's hope her stance on those things are a little more enlightened than her views on, um, everything else in politics.
Sub-Committee Chairs
* Rep. Glenn "GT" Thompson (PA-5): Conservation, Energy, and Forestry
Jurisdiction: Soil, water, and resource conservation, small watershed program, energy and biobased energy production, rural electrification, forestry in general and forest reserves other than those created from the public domain.
* Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (NE-1): Department Operations, Oversight, and Credit
Jurisdiction: Agency oversight, review and analysis, special investigations, and agricultural credit.
* Rep. K. Michael Conaway, (TX-11): General Farm Commodities and Risk Management
Jurisdiction: 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, commodity exchanges, and specialty crops.
* Rep. Tom Rooney (FL-16): Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry
Jurisdiction: Livestock, dairy, poultry, meat, seafood and seafood products, inspection, marketing, and promotion of such commodities, aquaculture, animal welfare, and grazing.
* Rep. Jean Schmidt (OH-2): Nutrition and Horticulture
Jurisdiction: Food stamps, nutrition and consumer programs, fruits and vegetables, honey and bees, marketing and promotion orders, plant pesticides, quarantine, adulteration of seeds and insect pests, and organic agriculture.
* Rep. Timothy V. Johnson (IL-15): Rural Development, Research, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture
Jurisdiction: Rural Development, farm security and family farming matters, biotechnology, foreign agriculture assistance, and trade promotion programs, generally.
Members
Frank D. Lucas (OK), Chairman-elect
Bob Goodlatte (VA), Vice Chairman-elect
Timothy V. Johnson (IL)
Steve King (IA)
Randy Neugebauer (TX)
K. Michael Conaway (TX)
Jeff Fortenberry (NE)
Jean Schmidt (OH)
Glenn Thompson (PA)
Tom Rooney (FL)*
Rick Crawford (AR)*
Scott DesJarlais (TN)*
Renee Ellmers (NC)*
Stephen Fincher (TN)*
Bob Gibbs (OH)*
Chris Gibson (NY)*
Vicky Hartzler (MO)*
Tim Huelskamp (KS)*
Randy Hultgren (IL)*
Reid Ribble (WI)*
Martha Roby (AL)*
Bobby Schilling (IL)*
Austin Scott (GA)*
Steve Southerland (FL)*
Marlin Stutzman (IN)*
Scott Tipton (CO) *
* = new member |
