Two newcomers to the House Agriculture Committee, Jackie Walorski of Indiana and David Rouzer of North Carolina, will chair subcommittees in the new session of Congress, announced incoming chairman Mike Conaway of Texas. A former missionary and state legislator, Walorski, elected to her second term, will chair the Nutrition subcommittee. Rouzer, who won election to the House on Nov 4, will chair the Livestock and Foreign Agriculture subcommittee. A former state senator, Rouzer is the first Republican to represent the district in southeastern North Carolina in 140 years.
Also named as subcommittee chairmen were Rodney Davis, from central Illinois, Biotechnology, Horticulture and Research; Austin Scott, from southern Georgia, Commodity Exchanges, Energy and Credit; Glenn Thompson, from north-central Pennsylvania, Conservation and Forestry; and Rick Crawford, northeastern Arkansas, General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.