Tom Vilsack: “Discrimination in any form will not be tolerated in this Department.”

States know who the recipients are because they administer the SNAP Program, and they also know where the jobs are.

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

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

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