Billions of dollars in subsidies to farmers and the future of cryptocurrency regulation are at risk of being in the hands of rookie subcommittee chairmen next year, no matter which party wins control of Congress.
Even if Democrats defy history and keep the House majority, the lawmakers in line to head panels that handle commodities and risk management may not be back.
Democratic Reps. Sean Patrick Maloney (N.Y.) and Angie Craig (Minn.) are in reelection contests rated as tossups by the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter. So is Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), chair of Senate Agriculture’s Commodities, Risk …