Committee Assignments

Boozman serves as Chairman of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee where he has a unique opportunity to shape the debates over how to address the many challenges facing our agricultural producers, modernize our nutrition programs and pursue policies that help rural America thrive. As the panel's leader, he continues to work in a bipartisan manner to author, champion and get provisions critical to providing certainty and flexibility to farmers, ranchers and foresters signed into law. Learn what the senator is doing to support Arkansas agricultural producers here.
Boozman also serves as Chairman of the Senate Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies (MilCon-VA) Appropriations Subcommittee. As a member of the committee and a subcommittee leader, the senator allocates funding for veterans, military construction projects and secures federal resources to support Arkansas priorities. Learn more about Fiscal Year 2025 priorities.

As a member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), Boozman has advocated for improvements to our nation's infrastructure and supported legislation to strengthen roads, bridges and runways. He spearheaded legislative efforts to help communities of all sizes, in every state, secure loans to modernize critical water infrastructure with the innovative Securing Required Funding for Water Infrastructure Now (SRF WIN) Act that was included as provision in the America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 and signed into law. Click here to read more about the senator's efforts to improve broadband and strengthen our nation's infrastructure. 

The senator is a senior member of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs where he has worked to expand benefits and opportunities for the men and women who wore our nation's uniform and their families. He has played a leading role in eliminating barriers to Department of Veterans Affairs care to women veterans and has been instrumental in developing new methods to prevent veteran suicides. Then-Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie called Boozman's initiative to leverage veteran-serving nonprofits and other community networks "key" to reducing the veteran suicide crisis. Boozman's initiative was included as a provision in the Commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health Care Improvement Act of 2019 that was signed into law in 2020. Click here to read more about Boozman's efforts in support of veterans.
The senator has rejoined the Rules Committee for the 119th Congress. One of the oldest committees in the Senate, it is responsible for administration of the Senate Office Buildings and the Senate wing of the Capitol; developing rules and regulations with respect to the Senate floor and gallery; federal elections generally; and more. Boozman is committed to serving on the panel to protect the Senate as an institution and defend political speech freedoms.

Additionally, John serves on the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki Commission, is an independent U.S. Government agency created in 1976 to monitor and encourage compliance with the Helsinki Final Act and other OSCE commitments.