Senate Appropriations Committee ranking member Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., announced Friday that Sen. Jeff Merkley will be the ranking member on the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee.

Mikulski also announced that Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.Mex., will be ranking member on the Interior and Environment Subcommittee and that Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., who was considered a candidate to chair those subcommittees, will chair the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee.

Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., has been the highest ranking Republican on the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, but the Republican majority has not announced Appropriations subcommittee chairs.