TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican Sen. Roger Marshall has received the Senate Agriculture Committee seat that he told Kansas voters he would get if they elected him.
The freshman senator also received seats on the Senate's energy, small business and health and education committees.
The Agriculture Committee has long been a key assignment for Kansas senators because of the industry's importance to the state. Marshall was a two-term western Kansas congressman when he ran for the Senate last year, and he played up his service on the House Agriculture Committee as a reason voters could expect him to be named to its Senate counterpart.
Marshall also ran for the seat held by now-retired GOP Sen. Pat Roberts, who served as chairman of both the Senate and House agriculture committees during his 40-year tenure in Congress.
Senior Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran will serve as the ranking Republican on the Veterans' Affairs Committee. Moran had been chairman before Democrats regained control of the chamber last month.
Moran also will serve on the Senate appropriations, banking, commerce and Indian Affairs committees, and he will join Marshall on the health and education committee.
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