Source: POLITICO'S MORNING AGRICUTLRUE, 5/29/20

The Lugar Center has an ongoing index of each congressional committee’s “devotion to oversight,” based on the number of relevant hearings conducted by nearly every House and Senate panel during the current Congress.

The latest results? The House Agriculture Committee got a “D,” the third-worst grade out of 17 committees in the chamber that were measured (panels like House Rules and Intelligence aren’t included). Senate Ag eked out a “C-” — which was in the top half of all Senate panels.

By the numbers: Under Chairman Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), one of the chamber’s most conservative Democrats, House Ag has held 36 hearings during the 116th Congress, according to the Lugar Center, but none were considered “investigative oversight” hearings by the organization. The Senate panel held 13 total hearings, but no such oversight meetings. (Still, both committees so far have raised their grades from the previous Congress.)

To be sure, the Ag committees have held hearings with Trump administration officials to examine implementation of the 2018 farm bill, economic damage from Trump’s trade war with China and other issues.

You can check out the center’s methodology here. Spokespersons for each panel declined to comment.