The U.S. Senate has announced the preliminary rosters for Committee assignments in the upcoming 114th Congress. 
Below is the membership list for the Agriculture Committee and the Appropriations Committee. The rosters for the U.S. House remain only partially complete. The Senate committee chairmen will be officially named in January after the 114th Congress is sworn in however it is widely believed that the chairmen of these two committees are set. These rosters are preliminary and are subject to change.
AGRICULTURE
Republicans Democrats
Pat Roberts, Kansas Debbie Stabenow, Michigan, Ranking Member
Thad Cochran, Mississippi Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont
Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Sherrod Brown, Ohio
John Boozman, Arkansas Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota
John Hoeven, North Dakota D. Michael Bennet, Colorado
David Perdue, Georgia* Kirsten Gillibrand, New York
Joni Ernst, Iowa* Joe Donelly, Indiana
Thom Tillis, North Carolina* Heidi Heitkamp, North Dakota
Ben Sasse, Nebraska* Bob Casey, Pennsylvania
Charles E. Grassley, Iowa
John Thune, South Dakota
APPROPRIATIONS
Republicans Democrats
Thad Cochran, Mississippi Barbara Mikulski, Maryland, ranking member
Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont
Richard C. Shelby, Alabama Patty Murray, Washington
Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Dianne Feinstein, California
Susan Collins, Maine Richard J. Durbin, Illinois
Lisa Murkowski, Alaska Jack Reed, Rhode Island
Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Jon Tester, Montana
Mark S. Kirk, Illinois Tom Udall, New Mexico
Roy Blunt, Missouri Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire
Jerry Moran, Kansas Jeff Merkley, Oregon
John Hoeven, North Dakota Chris Coons, Delaware
John Boozman, Arkansas Brian Schatz, Hawaii
Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia* Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin
Bill Cassidy, Louisiana* Christopher S. Murphy, Connecticut*
James Lankford, Oklahoma*
Steve Daines, Montana*
* Indicates new member of the US Senate.
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