TheU.S. Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition and Hunger, Nutrition and Family Farms is one of five subcommittees of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.

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 initatives; 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, 111th Congress

The subcommittee is chaired by Democrat Sherrod Brown of Ohio, and the Ranking Minority Member is Republican Richard Lugar of Indiana.

Majority	Minority
Sherrod Brown, Ohio, Chairman Patrick Leahy, Vermont Max Baucus, Montana Blanche Lincoln, Arkansas Debbie Stabenow, Michigan Bob Casey, Pennsylvania Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota Michael Bennet, Colorado Kirsten Gillibrand, New York	Richard Lugar, Indiana, Ranking Member Thad Cochran, Mississippi Mitch McConnell, Kentucky John Cornyn, Texas
Ex officio
	Saxby Chambliss, Georgia

References

1. http://ag.senate.gov/site/subcmtes.html

External links

• Subcommittee webpage