the Secretary spoke last week about, and I talked to my colleague, Allyson Schwartz, where this healthy food initiative is working to get nu...
it's a moral responsibility, in my view, what we're talking about here.
this is not mandated for us to do, but the issue is so critical and so important that we really wanted to get you here to address this.
We continue to have these bad actors selling ground beef to the national school lunch program.
That sounds pretty basic to me, that if you can't find the places that are, you know, where the risk is, that once again flies in the face o...
I understand that. But I think you said that they sent the material out to places where they were not part--they didn't receive any of the p...
Even more disturbing is the fact that USDA has documented many of the violations but taken virtually no action to permanently bar suppliers ...
I don't like that.
Mm-hmm.
There were some deliberate actions, did you say?
Given the clear impact it would have on exports and on farmers, do you support the lifting of the embargo as part of your export initiative?
And let me be clear, it is our goal and our intent to get this chapter, these series of chapters, closed in USDA history.
We currently allow agricultural exports to Cuba through a number of restrictions that are in place because of the embargo.
I am not satisfied that if we continue to see repeated violations that compromise the safety of our children, I think it is fairly important...
What I would like to do is to suggest and we will think about how we try to put together a program since most of the farmers in this world a...
Many of the industries that built Connecticut's prosperity during the 20th century are in decline.
We all know that our unemployment rate is unacceptably high.
The sad but unavoidable truth is that many of those jobs aren't coming back.
