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Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry · Congress.wiki

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Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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The Senate Committee on Agriculture has legislative jurisdiction over agriculture, food, and nutrition.

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Leadership

Republican • Arkansas

Democrat • Minnesota

Members (23)

John Boozman

Republican • AR

Amy Klobuchar

Democrat • MN

Addison Mitchell McConnell

Republican • KY

Michael F. Bennet

Democrat • CO

John Hoeven

Republican • ND

Tina Smith

Democrat • MN

Joni Ernst

Republican • IA

Richard Joseph Durbin

Democrat • IL

Cindy Hyde-Smith

Republican • MS

Cory Anthony Booker

Democrat • NJ

Ben Ray Luján

Democrat • NM

Roger Wayne Marshall

Republican • KS

Raphael Gamaliel Warnock

Democrat • GA

Thomas Hawley Tuberville

Republican • AL

James Conley Justice

Republican • WV

Peter Welch

Democrat • VT

Charles Ernest Grassley

Republican • IA

John Karl Fetterman

Democrat • PA

Adam Schiff

Democrat • CA

John Thune

Republican • SD

Debra Fischer

Republican • NE

Elissa Slotkin

Democrat • MI

Jerry Moran

Republican • KS

Legislation

568

Total Bills

1

Became Law

14

Passed House

7

Passed Senate

369

In Committee

Recent Activity

Committee Pipeline

30

Referred

0

Ordered

0

Reported

Referred

Neighborhood Tree Act of 2026

The bill directs substantial federal investment to expand urban and community tree canopy—bringing major health, environmental, job, and equity benefits to underserved neighborhoods—while creating significant new taxpayer costs and risks of maintenance burden, uneven access, and local displacement if not paired with durable funding and equitable implementation.

Cory Anthony Booker (D)

40%

Referred

Hot Rotisserie Chicken Act

The bill clarifies and broadens what counts as eligible SNAP food—potentially improving access and reducing legal ambiguity for administrators—but risks higher program costs and short-term administrative disruption during implementation.

James Conley Justice (R)

40%

Referred

Community Connect Grant Program Act of 2026

The bill raises minimum broadband standards to deliver higher-quality, future-proof internet to eligible rural areas, but does so at the risk of higher project costs, excluding some underserved non-rural areas, and creating coordination or duplication challenges across programs.

Tina Smith (D)

35%

Referred

Amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require States to provide data on fraud in the supplemental nutrition assistance program, and for other purposes.

Richard Lynn Scott (R)

Referred

Amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to provide for high-priority research and extension grants for natural climate solutions, and for other purposes.

Edward John Markey (D)

Referred

Amend the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 to authorize payments under the emergency conservation system for updating of fencing to new or emerging technology.

John Peter Ricketts (R)

Referred

Ensuring Disaster Recovery and Resilience for Specialty Crops Act

Adam Schiff (D)

Referred

Amend the Plant Protection Act to improve plant pest and disease preparedness for specialty crops.

Adam Schiff (D)

Referred

Amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to increase access to Federal crop insurance for specialty crops.

Adam Schiff (D)

Referred

Allow the Farm Credit Administration the option to examine low-risk Farm Credit System institutions under a 24-month cycle.

John Cornyn (R)

Shows active legislation in this committee's pipeline. Controversiality scores and analysis are AI-generated from the 119th Congress.

Legislative Focus

Top Focus Areas

Rural Development152

Procedural Corrections141

Farm Subsidies & Crop Insurance120

Agriculture Research99

Conservation & Public Lands71

Strongest Positions

Wildfire Management+0.73

SNAP & Nutrition Assistance+0.67

Workforce Development+0.66

20 topics

OpposesNeutralSupports

Rural Development

+0.62

152 bills

Procedural Corrections

0.00

141 bills

Farm Subsidies & Crop Insurance

+0.42

120 bills

Agriculture Research

+0.52

99 bills

Conservation & Public Lands

+0.62

71 bills

Infrastructure Funding

+0.49

51 bills

Government Accountability & Oversight

+0.42

50 bills

Food Safety

+0.44

50 bills

Sense of Congress

0.00

47 bills

Water Resources

+0.61

42 bills

Stance scores range from -1 (opposes) to +1 (supports), based on bills referred to this committee in the 119th Congress. Confidence dot shown for high-confidence scores.

Subcommittees

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

Subcommittee on Commodities, Derivatives, Risk Management, and Trade

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

Subcommittee on Conservation, Forestry, Natural Resources, and Biotechnology

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, and Food Safety

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

Subcommittee on Rural Development, Energy, and Credit

Meeting Videos

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Hearings to examine the nomination of Michael Selig, of Florida, to be a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Hearings to examine the nomination of Glen Smith, of Iowa, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development.

Hearings to examine the nominations of Mindy Brashears, of Texas, to be Under Secretary for Food Safety, Stella Herrell, of New Mexico, to be an Assistant Secretary, and John Walk, of Virginia, to be Inspector General, all of the Department of Agriculture.

Business meeting to consider H.R.4550, to reauthorize the United States Grain Standards Act, S.1462, to improve forest management activities on National Forest System land, public land under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, and Tribal land to return resilience to overgrown, fire-prone forested land, S.277, to release a Federal reversionary interest and convey mineral interests in Chester County, Tennessee, S.1680, to designate additions to the Rough Mountain Wilderness and the Rich Hole Wilderness of the George Washington National Forest, S.2440, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain National Forest System land located in Franklin County, Mississippi, H.R.197, to provide for a land exchange in the Chippewa National Forest, Minnesota, S.1262, to require the Secretary of Agriculture to release a reversionary interest in certain land in the Black River State Forest in Millston, Wisconsin, S.2548, to designate the Camp Hutchins Wilderness and establish Special Management Areas in the Shawnee National Forest in the State of Illinois, S.1681, to establish the Shenandoah Mountain National Scenic Area in the State of Virginia, H.R.1612, to designate the Flatside-Bethune Wilderness in the Ouachita National Forest, S.1350, to modify the boundaries of the Talladega National Forest, S.1376, to amend the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a study on the feasibility of designating the Benton MacKaye Trail as a national scenic trail, S.1876, to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to relocate a memorial honoring the 9 Air Force crew members who lost their lives in an airplane crash in the Cherokee and Nantahala National Forests during a training mission on August 31, 1982, S.638, to amend the Act of June 22, 1948, and an original bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to convey a parcel of property of the Forest Service to Perry County, Arkansas.

Hearing Records

37 transcripts available

Legislative Hearing To Review S. 1462, Fix Our Forests Act

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May 6, 2025View PDF

Perspectives From The Field, Part 4: Conservation

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May 13, 2025View PDF

Nomination Of Glen Smith To Be Under Secretary Of Agriculture For Rural Development

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Nov 5, 2025View PDF

Nomination Of Michael Selig To Be Chairman And Commissioner Of The Commodity Futures Trading Commission

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Nov 19, 2025View PDF

Nomination Of Brooke Rollins To Be Secretary Of Agriculture

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Jan 23, 2025View PDF

Stakeholder Perspectives On Federal Oversight Of Digital Commodities

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Jul 15, 2025View PDF

Amend the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 to authorize payments under the emergency conservation system for updating of fencing to new or emerging technology.

John Peter Ricketts

Nebraska senator

6/9/2026Referred To

Amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require States to provide data on fraud in the supplemental nutrition assistance program, and for other purposes.

Richard Lynn Scott

6/9/2026Referred To

Amend the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to provide for high-priority research and extension grants for natural climate solutions, and for other purposes.

Edward John Markey

6/9/2026Referred To

Ensuring Disaster Recovery and Resilience for Specialty Crops Act

6/2/2026Referred To

Amend the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 to reauthorize the specialty crop research initiative and establish a specialty crop mechanization and automation research and development program, and for other purposes.

6/2/2026Referred To

Oct 21, 2025

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