House Ag Committee members announced for 116th Congress

Members of the House Agriculture Committee have been announced.  Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minnesota, will chair the committee and Rep. Michael Conaway, R-Texas, is the ranking member.

“This is a strong roster for the Ag Committee and I’m looking forward to tackling the challenges that our farmers and ranchers, rural communities and working families face,” Peterson said. “We have a good cross-section of the diversity of crops grown in this country and the regions that grow them, as well as great representation of the variety of issues of jurisdiction on the Committee.”

“I’m pleased to have a great group of new and returning members on the Agriculture Committee who will continue the work of restoring prosperity to our nation’s farmers and ranchers and all of rural America,” Conaway said. “We have a great deal of work to do, including implementing and protecting the new farm bill, continuing to press for a roll back of harmful regulations that hurt our farmers and ranchers, and leveling the global playing field to create more market access for U.S. agriculture products. I’m confident in the team we have assembled, and I look forward to working alongside my new colleagues in championing rural America and our country’s farm and ranch families.”

California has the most representation on the committee with six members; five states have three members on the committee: Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Minnesota and New York.

Democratic members of the committee for the 116th Congress, in additon to Peterson:

1. David Scott, Georgia
2. Jim Costa, California
3. Marcia Fudge, Ohio
4. Jim McGovern, Massachusetts
5. Filemon Vela, Texas
6. Stacey Plaskett, U.S. Virgin Islands
7. Alma Adams, North Carolina
8. Abigail Spanberger, Virginia
9. Jahana Hayes, Connecticut
10. Antonio Delgado, New York
11. T.J. Cox, California
12. Angie Craig, Minnesota
13. Anthony Brindisi, New York
14. Jeff Van Drew, New Jersey
15. Josh Harder, California
16. Kim Schrier, Washington
17. Chellie Pingree, Maine
18. Cheri Bustos, Illinois
19. Sean Patrick Maloney, New York
20. Salud Carbajal, California
21. Al Lawson, Jr., Florida
22. Tom O’Halleran, Arizona
23. Jimmy Panetta, California
24. Ann Kirkpatrick, Arizona
25. Cindy Axne, Iowa

Republican members of the committee for the 116th Congress, in addition to Conaway:

1. Glenn 'GT' Thompson, Pennsylvania
2. Austin Scott, Georgia
3. Rick Crawford, Arkansas
4. Scott DesJarlais, Tennessee
5. Vicky Hartzler, Missouri
6. Doug LaMalfa, California
7. Rodney Davis, Illinois
8. Ted Yoho, Florida
9. Rick Allen, Georgia
10. Mike Bost, Illinois
11. David Rouzer, North Carolina
12. Ralph Abraham, Louisiana
13. Trent Kelly, Mississippi
14. James Comer, Kentucky
15. Roger Marshall, Kansas
16. Don Bacon, Nebraska
17. Neal Dunn, Florida
18. Dusty Johnson, South Dakota
19. Jim Baird, Indiana
20. Jim Hagedorn, Minnesota

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