Tom Vilsack: “The American people have been struggling through the most serious economic recession since the Great Depression.”

It would likely mean a loss of 40,000 rental assistance units in rural America.

If those budget cuts, even the most conservative budget cut, that is to say, putting it back to levels of several years ago, would result, not in an increase in Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC)…

I would say, frankly, that as a Nation we have underfunded research in agriculture for far too long.

It would mean 84,000 farmers couldn't access the technical assistance they need to embrace conservation practices.