It’s official. Cory Gardner is a big-time player in national politics.

The senator from Colorado-the small Eastern Plains town of Yuma, to be precise-joined the Senate leadership team Wednesday as National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman.

Gardner will be the point man in getting more Republicans elected to the Senate. The NRSC helps elect Republican incumbents and challengers primarily through fundraising.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, selected to be President-elect Trump’s chief of staff, called Gardner “a dynamic young leader who will put our party in prime position to preserve and expand our majority across the map this cycle.”

Gardner joins Mitch McConnell, who was unanimously re-elected as Senate majority leader, along with majority whip John Cornyn, conference chairman John Thune, conference vice chairman Roy Blunt and chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee John Barrasso.

“I am excited about this expanded opportunity to serve Coloradans and make their voice heard on a larger stage,” Gardner said in a statement. “I am honored to have the confidence of the other Republican senators to take on this leadership role, and I won’t let them down.”

Gardner has had a meteoric rise in politics since 2005, when he was appointed to a seat in the Colorado House of Representatives, where he served five years before being elected to the U.S. House in 2010. In 2014 he beat Democrat Mark Udall for a seat in the Senate.