The administration will work to eliminate food deserts across the country within 7 years.

We believe this is a good budget, a strong budget, a budget that has elements of reform and responds to the challenges that we face in rural America.

The American people have been struggling through the most serious economic recession since the Great Depression.

We think there is a need for better data collection.

One of the things we wanted to focus on was a way in which we could respond to that challenge.

We will make sure that those resources are, obviously, strategically focused and make sure that people have input as to where they are to be spent.

I think our budget is a constructive one. And I think it is furthering the interests of conservation.

It's time to get our fiscal house in order.

I think that they are waiting on a completion of the Department of Energy testing.

The challenges facing rural communities for decades have grown more acute, which is why the Obama administration is committed to new approaches to strengthen rural America.

If we continued down the road we were on, we'd continue to have participation in some, but not all, of livestock.

What we think will happen at the end of this is that there'll be greater cooperation between State and Federal Government.