Milling & Baking News - November 22, 2016 - 17

Washington

Amid election tumult, agriculture
committees see little change
WASHINGTON - While the stunning election of businessman Donald J. Trump as 45th president of the
United States roiled the Washington
landscape, congressional agriculture committees stood out as isles of
tranquility, with nearly all members
standing for re-election securing their
seats for another term. This stability
in membership has been the norm
through many, if not most, recent
election cycles.
Six members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and
Forestry stood for re-election this
year, and all won their contests. They

included four Republicans and two
Democrats. The Republican senators
elected to new six-year terms included John Boozman of Arkansas, John
Hoeven of North Dakota, Charles
Grassley of Iowa and John Thune of
South Dakota. Democrats winning
their re-election contests included
Patrick Leahy of Vermont (a former
chairman of the agriculture committee) and Michael Bennet of Colorado.
Other committee members were
mid-term and did not have to stand
for re-election this cycle. On the Republican side of the aisle, this included Pat Roberts of Kansas (the committee chairman), Thad Cochran of
Mississippi, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky (the current Majority Leader),
David Perdue of Georgia, Joni Ernst
of Iowa, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Ben Sasse of Nebraska. On the
Democratic side, committee members
who did not have to stand for re-election this year included Debbie Stabenow of Michigan (ranking member
and former committee chair), Sherrod
Brown of Ohio, Amy Klobuchar of
Minnesota, Kirsten Gillibrand of New
York, Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Heidi
Heitkamp of North Dakota, and Robert P. Casey Jr. of Pennsylvania.

The current House Committee on
Agriculture has 26 Republican and 19
Democratic members. Of the 45 members, 41 stood for re-election and all
but one, Democrat Brad Ashford of
Nebraska, were re-elected.
Republican members of the committee re-elected this cycle included
K. Michael Conaway of Texas (the
committee chairman), Randy Neugebauer of Texas (the vice-chairman),
Bob Goodlatte of Virginia (a former
committee chairman), Frank D. Lucas
of Oklahoma (also a former committee
chairman), Steve King of Iowa, Mike
Rogers of Alabama, Glenn Thompson
of Pennsylvania, Bob Gibbs
of Ohio, Austin Scott of
Georgia, Rick Crawford of
Arkansas, Scott DesJarlais
of Tennessee, Vicky Hartzler of Missouri, Jeff Denham
of California, Doug LaMalfa
of California, Rodney Davis
of Illinois, Ted Yoho of Florida, Jackie Walorski of Indiana, Rick Allen of Georgia,
Mike Bost of Illinois, David
Rouzer of North Carolina,
Ralph Abraham of Louisiana, Trent Kelly of Mississippi, John
Moolenaar of Michigan and Dan Newhouse of Washington.
Two Republican members of the
committee chose not to seek re-election: Dan Benishek of Michigan and
Chris Gibson of New York.
Democratic members of the committee winning their re-election bids
included Collin C. Peterson of Minnesota (ranking member and former
chairman of the agriculture committee), David Scott of Georgia, Jim
Costa of California, Timothy J. Walz
of Minnesota, Marcia L. Fudge of
Ohio, Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, Suzan DelBene of Washington,
Filemon Vela of Texas, Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, Ann
McLane Kuster of New Hampshire,
Rick Nolan of Minnesota, Cheri Bustos of Illinois, Sean Patrick Maloney
of New York, Pete Aguilar of California, Alma Adams of North Carolina
and Stacey Plaskett of the Virgin Islands (Ms. Plaskett is a non-voting
member of the committee).
Ann Kirkpatrick of Arizona retired
from the House to run for the Senate
against John McCain; she was defeated. Democrat Gwen Graham of
Florida did not seek re-election. MBN

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