Editor’s Note: We are introducing a short series of articles in the next few issues of Cotton News detailing the Representatives and Senators serving on the House Agriculture Committee, the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, and the House Ag Appropriations and Senate Ag Appropriations Subcommittees.
This issue will feature the Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Food and Drug Administration Appropriations.
This subcommittee will be referred to as “Senate Ag Appropriations” through the rest of the article. This subcommittee is tasked with writing legislation that allocates federal funds to government agencies, departments and organizations for the agriculture industry.
Part 3: Senate Ag Appropriations Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND), Senate Ag Appropriations Chair
• Elected to the U.S. Senate in 2011
• Served 10 years as North Dakota Governor
• Member of the House Ag Committee and played a crucial role in crafting and passing the 2014 Farm Bill
• Vice President of First Western Bank from 1986-2000
• President and CEO of the Bank of North Dakota from 1993-2000
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Senate Ag Appropriations Ranking Member
• Elected to the U.S. Senate in 2009
• Former governor of New Hampshire
• Served in the New Hampshire Senate
• One of 12 Senate Democrats to vote for the Laken Riley Act