Tom Vilsack: “This is a budget, Mr. Chairman, that also will allow for an expansion of local and regional food systems in the…”

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 make hunger the number one priority, then I can guarantee you that governors will have to listen, corporate CEOs will have to listen, nonprofits will have to listen.

I think there are a lot of misconceptions about SNAP, and I think it stems from who people think are on SNAP.