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The 112th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, from January 3, 2011, until January 3, 2013. It convened in Washington, D.C., on January 3, 2011, and ended on January 3, 2013, 17 days before the end of the presidential term to which Barack Obama was elected in 2008.
Senators who were sworn in during the middle of the two-year Congress (up until the last senator who was not sworn in early after winning the November 2012 election) are listed at the end of the list with no number. In the 112th Congress, Tom Harkin is the most senior junior senator, and Jeanne Shaheen is the most junior senior senator.
Senate Agriculture Committee. The Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry is a committee of the United States Senate empowered with legislative oversight of all matters relating to the nation's agriculture industry, farming programs, forestry and logging, and legislation relating to nutrition, home economics, and rural development.
Standing committees. As of 2017, there are 88 subsidiary bodies of the US Senate: 16 standing committees with 67 subcommittees, and five non-standing committees. Committee. Chair. Ranking Member. Refs. Subcommittee. Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
This subcommittee has jurisdiction over "domestic and international nutrition and food assistance and hunger prevention; school and child nutrition programs; local and healthy food initiatives; futures, options and derivatives; pesticides; and general legislation". [1]
The 112th Congress, which was divided between a Democratic Senate and Republican House, passed only 283 acts. In terms of legislation enacted, it was the least productive Congress since modern records began in 1947, [ 1 ] passing far fewer than the 906 passed by the 80th Congress (the "Do-nothing Congress").
Senate Majority Whip: Dick Durbin: IL: January 20, 2021 Party whip since January 3, 2005: Chair of the Senate Democratic Policy and Communications Committee: Debbie Stabenow: MI: January 3, 2017: Chair of the Senate Democratic Steering Committee: Amy Klobuchar: MN: January 3, 2017: Vice Chairs of the Senate Democratic Caucus: Mark Warner: VA ...
Before her current committee assignments, Stabenow also served on the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee [17] and the Special Committee on Aging. [ 18 ] Stabenow is only the second person from Michigan to have served in both houses of the Michigan State Legislature and both houses of the United States Congress , the other being Thomas ...