Mike Conaway: “Good public policy is not a zero-sum game.”

I want American farmers participating in this, and American people support these programs in large part because they think it is American-grown products that are being used over there.

It is critical and absolutely crucial that food assistance and agriculture development efforts focus on building resilience.

I am all for that, but just to have an open-ended check I don't think is necessarily a good idea.

We need to make sure that people that are unemployed, people that are having a tough time, have enough food to take care of their kids.