United States Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Climate, Forestry, and Natural Resources

The U.S. Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Forestry and Natural Resources is one of five subcommittees of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.

This subcommittee has jurisdiction over rural development legislation and rural electrification legislation, oversight of rural electrification, agricultural credit, the Farm Credit System, the Farm Credit Administration, and the Farmers Home Administration and its successor agencies. It also has jurisdiction over crop insurance, forestry in general and forest reserves that were acquired from state, local, or private sources, soil conservation, stream channelization, and watershed and flood control programs involving structures of less than 4,000 acre-feet (4,900,000 m³) storage capacity.

The subcommittee was renamed for the 112th Congress (2011). It was formerly named the Subcommittee on Rural Revitalization, Conservation, Forestry and Credit Jurisdiction.

Members, 113th Congress

Majority	Minority
David Perdue, Georgia, Chairman Thad Cochran, Mississippi Mitch McConnell, Kentucky John Boozman, Georgia Ben Sasse, Nebraska Chuck Grassley, Iowa	Michael Bennet, Colorado, Ranking Member Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota Patrick Leahy, Vermont Heidi Heitkamp, North Dakota Bob Casey, Pennsylvania
Ex officio
Thad Cochran, Mississippi	Debbie Stabenow, Michigan

External links

• Committee website, Subcommittee page