Tom Vilsack: “We have been listening and we have been trying to respond as best we can.”

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

this budget is at a critical point, at a transformational point, in my view, in rural America, and in agriculture.

I think you two gentlemen have laid out a plan that addresses the fundamental weakness of our current farm policy.

I hope that that factor is taken into consideration, given the importance of this Department