Tom Vilsack: “This is one area that has frustrated me more than any since I have been Secretary, because everybody--everybody--knows…”

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.

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.

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