Tom Vilsack: “This is a priority from the top, and FSIS is up to the challenge.”

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

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

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.

I would say, frankly, that as a Nation we have underfunded research in agriculture for far too long.