Trump was unlikely in such a short period of time before Joe Biden's inauguration on January 20. He called fellow Montana senator Steve Daines an "enabler" of the attack, as Daines supported Trump's unproven voter fraud claims. Committee assignments Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Subcommittee on Defense (Chair) Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development Subcommittee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on Indian Affairs Committee on Veterans' Affairs (Chair) Caucus memberships Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus (Co-chair) International Conservation Caucus Political positions Tester is considered a moderate or centrist Democrat. A New York Times profile of Tester after his 2006 election described him as "truly your grandfather's Democrat—a pro-gun, anti-big-business prairie pragmatist whose life is defined by the treeless patch of hard Montana dirt that has been in the family since 1916." In 2012, USA Today noted that Tester had sometimes "split with Democrats—most recently in his support of construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast—but he has voted with Obama on the most critical issues of his presidency: the stimulus, the health care legislation and the Dodd-Frank financial services overhaul." FiveThirtyEight, which tracks votes in Congress, found that Tester voted with Trump's position about 31% of the time as of April 2020. CQ Roll Call reported that Tester voted with Trump's position approximately half of the time in 2017 and 2018. According to GovTrack, he is the Senate's fourth most conservative Democrat, to the right of most of his Democratic colleagues as well as two Republicans. In 2012, he was given a 90% rating by Americans for Democratic Action and 86% by the League of Conservation Voters. The American Conservative Union gave him an 11% lifetime conservative rating in 2020. The nonpartisan National Journal rated his votes overall as 55% liberal and 45% conservative, with scores of 51% on "Liberal on Economic Policy" and 48% on "Conservative on Economic Policy." LGBT rights On December 18, 2010, Tester voted in favor of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010. While he opposed same-sex marriage during both his 2006 and 2012 campaigns, Tester announced his support for it in March 2013, citing concerns about federal government overreach. After