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 The Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry is a committee of the United States Senate empowered with legislative oversight of all matters relating to the nation's agriculture industry, farming programs, forestry and logging, and leg ...

Name changes

The subcommittee was renamed for the

115th United States Congress The 115th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States of America federal government, composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C., from January 3, 2017, to January ...

(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". The origins of the subcommittee lay in the

Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs The United States Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs was a select committee of the United States Senate between 1968 and 1977. It was sometimes referred to as the McGovern committee, after its only chairman, Senator George McGov ...

that was active from 1968 to 1977 before being subsumed into the Agriculture Committee.

Members

117th Congress

References

External links

Subcommittee webpage
{{USCongressCommittees Agriculture Nutrition Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Hunger, Nutrition and Family Farms