Tom Vilsack: “Today, our country and the Department of Agriculture again face historic challenges.”

If you authorize it, if Congress creates the opportunity for this, we will be more than happy to utilize that program.

American farmers have done exactly what we asked them to do.

If you take SNAP and you reduce it or you eliminate it, you are obviously going to impact not just the poor families that are receiving it.

Well, the House Agriculture appropriations talked about an 18 percent cut to our budget, so you can do the math.