Tom Vilsack: “One of the things we wanted to focus on was a way in which we could respond to that challenge.”

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.

There is no doubt that there are many, many, many working poor, working poor with an emphasis on working.

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