The next step was to recruit other members of the House to join in the effort. So Rep. McGovern and Rep. Jenkins put together a Dear Colleague Letter inviting all 435 members of the House of Representatives (as well as six non-voting members) to join the caucus.
Dear Colleague:We invite you to join us as members of the newly re-established House Hunger Caucus. The House Hunger Caucus is a bipartisan forum for Members and staff to discuss, advance and engage the House's work on national and international hunger and food insecurity issues.
Ending hunger at home and around the world is a popular idea, but it is a goal that, for a variety of reasons, has yet to be accomplished. There are many programs, plans, and organizations dedicated to ending hunger, just as there are governmental programs that are successful but underutilized in some cases. In addition, corporations and small businesses are active in fighting hunger, as are churches, faith-based organizations, and other non-profit organizations.
Specific functions of the House Hunger Caucus include:
- Bring awareness to national and international hunger and food insecurity issues,
- Serve as a forum for Members and staffs to receive information through briefings, hearings and meetings about hunger and food insecurity issues
- Create a coalition of Members to support legislative initiatives and funding requests that help address hunger and food insecurity
- Serve as a vehicle for local, state and national hunger non-profits to communicate to Congress about hunger and food insecurity issues
- Enhance public and private partnerships to support hunger and food insecurity initiatives
- Create a forum for academic discussion of long term solutions to hunger and food insecurity issues
A year later, nearly one-fifth of the House of Representatives (83 voting members and three non-voting members) have joined the House Hunger Caucus. The list includes New Mexico Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham from the First Congressional District and Rep. Ben Ray Lujan from the Third Congressional District. These representatives elected to address hunger and food insecurity in a very intentional way and deserve our gratitude. If your representative is on this list, please send him or her a note of thanks for "Voting to End Hunger."
Our deep gratitude to Jennifer Chandler, chief of staff for Rep. McGovern, for supplying the list of members of the House Hunger Caucus.
| Member | State and District | Party |
| Adams, Alma | NC-12 | D |
| Aguilar, Pete | CA-31 | D |
| Benishek, Dan M.D. | MI-01 | R |
| Bishop, Mike | MI-08 | R |
| Bishop, Sanford | GA-02 | D |
| Bordallo, Madeleine | GU | D |
| Brady, Robert | PA-01 | D |
| Capps, Lois | CA-24 | D |
| Capuano, Michael | MA-07 | D |
| Carson, Andre | IN-07 | D |
| Clark, Katherine | MA-05 | D |
| Cleaver II, Emanuel | MO-05 | D |
| Connolly, Gerald | VA-11 | D |
| Conyers, John | MI-13 | D |
| Costa, Jim | CA-16 | D |
| Courtney, Joe | CT-02 | D |
| Crenshaw, Ander | FL-04 | R |
| DeFazio, Peter | OR-04 | D |
| DeLauro, Rosa | CT-03 | D |
| Deutch, Ted | FL-21 | D |
| Dingell, Debbie | MI-12 | D |
| Doggett, Lloyd | TX-35 | D |
| Doyle, Mike | PA-14 | D |
| Edwards, Donna | MD-04 | D |
| Ellison, Keith | MN-05 | D |
| Forbes, Randy | VA-04 | R |
| Frankel, Lois | FL-22 | D |
| Goodlatte, Bob | VA-06 | R |
| Granger, Kay | TX-12 | R |
| Green, AL | TX-09 | D |
| Griffith, Morgan | VA-09 | R |
| Hastings, Alcee | FL-20 | D |
| Honda, Mike | CA-17 | D |
| Huffman, Jared | CA-02 | D |
| Hultgren, Randall | IL-14 | R |
| Jackson-Lee, Sheila | TX-18 | D |
| Jenkins, Lynn, CPA | KS-02 | R |
| Johnson, Eddie Bernice | TX-30 | D |
| Kaptur, Marcy | OH-09 | D |
| Kelly, Mike | PA-03 | R |
| Kind, Ron | WI-03 | D |
| Kildee, Dan | MI-05 | D |
| Kuster, Ann McLane | NH-02 | D |
| Larsen, Rick | WA-02 | D |
| Larson, John | CT-01 | D |
| Lawrence, Brenda L. | MI-14 | D |
| Lee, Barbara | CA-13 | D |
| Levin, Sander | MI-09 | D |
| Lewis, John | GA-05 | D |
| Lipinski, Daniel | IL-03 | D |
| LoBiondo, Frank | NJ-02 | R |
| Loebsack, David | IA-02 | D |
| Lowenthal, Alan | CA-47 | D |
| Lujan, Ben Ray | NM-03 | D |
| Lujan Grisham, Michelle | NM-01 | D |
| Lynch, Stephen | MA-08 | D |
| Maloney, Carolyn | NY-12 | D |
| Matsui, Doris | CA-06 | D |
| McCollum, Betty | MN-04 | D |
| McDermott, Jim | WA-07 | D |
| McGovern, James P. | MA-02 | D |
| Moolenaar, John | MI-04 | R |
| Murphy, Patrick E. | FL-18 | D |
| Neal, Richard | MA-01 | D |
| Nolan, Rick | MN-08 | D |
| Norton, Eleanor Holmes | DC | D |
| Pallone, Frank | NJ-06 | D |
| Pingree, Chellie | ME-01 | D |
| Price, David | NC-04 | D |
| Rangel, Charles B. | NY-13 | D |
| Reichert, David | WA-08 | R |
| Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho | MP | D |
| Schakowsky, Jan | IL-09 | D |
| Schiff, Adam | CA-28 | D |
| Scott, Robert "Bobby" | VA-03 | D |
| Serrano, Jose | NY-15 | D |
| Smith, Adam | WA-09 | D |
| Speier, Jackie | CA-14 | D |
| Thompson, Glenn "GT" | PA-05 | R |
| Trott, David | MI-11 | R |
| Tsongas, Nikki | MA-03 | D |
| Upton, Fred | MI-06 | R |
| Van Hollen, Chris | MD-08 | D |
| Walberg, Tim | MI-07 | R |
| Welch, Peter | VT At-Large | D |
| Young, Todd | IN-09 | R |
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