Tom Vilsack actually said...

"the embargo statute basically prohibits the Department of Agriculture from using any of its market assistance programming money, so we cannot directly help promote, as we do in other countries."

"I would hope that we would be able to get work plans completed and we would get something over to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) relatively soon."

"Candidly, I am at the point now where folks have raised concerns about trails and a variety of other facets of the Forest Service that we are not going to do what we have done in the past, which is tr..."

"I am here to say unequivocally they are safe to consumers."