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TUESDAY ELECTION RESULTS SHAKES UP HOUSE, SENATE AG COMMITTEE LEADERSHIP
Nov. 5, 2010
Farm Progress reports:
As expected, on Tuesday Republicans took control of the House of Representatives. This will lead to a shake-up in the leadership in the 112th Congress.
One incumbent who retained his seat, Rep. Collin Peterson, D-MN, will lose his chairmanship of the House Agriculture Committee. It is expected that current ranking member Frank Lucas, R-OK, will assume that position.
Longtime Agriculture Committee member Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-ND, lost his bid for re-election, as did Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, D-SD. In all, 14 members of the House Agriculture Committee lost in Tuesday's election. Rep. Jerry Moran, R-KS, also will be leaving the House Agriculture Committee as he was elected to the Senate.
On the Senate side, Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Blanche Lincoln, D-AR, was defeated, and committee member Michael Bennet, D-CO, was trailing slightly in a race too close to call.
Although Republicans closed the gap, Democrats maintained their majority in the Senate, and there has been speculation that Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-MI, could be the next chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. Although Sens. Max Baucus, D-MT; Kent Conrad, D-ND; and Patrick Leahy, D-VT. All have more seniority than Stabenow, they hold committee chairmanships of Finance, Budget and Judiciary, respectively.
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