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27 Jun 2013, 10:02 pm by News Desk
Lew, Attorney General Eric Holder, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. [read post]
20 Mar 2013, 10:01 pm by Helena Bottemiller
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Thursday morning that the amendment, which he had voiced support for, is “an acknowledgment that sequestration left USDA with no other option but to furlough meat inspectors. [read post]
15 Mar 2012, 5:56 pm
Robert Menendez (D-NJ) both wrote Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack this week asking that the product both be removed from lunches and also labeled for the general public. [read post]
12 Aug 2011, 2:59 am
 In a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Thurdsay, consumer groups call attention to a recent petition submitted by the Center for Science in the Public Interest that asked USDA to use its interpretive rulemaking authority to declare four separate strains of antibiotic-resistant Salmonella -- Hadar, Heidelberg, Newport, and Typhimurium -- as adulterants under both the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act. [read post]
10 Feb 2013, 9:54 pm by Helena Bottemiller
According to the Hagstom Report (subscription only), last week Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack called the sequester “horrible policy” and cited the impact to food safety as one example. [read post]
10 Feb 2014, 2:34 pm by Claire Mitchell
When speaking with state agriculture department leaders at the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) Winter Policy Conference, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack explained that implementing the farm bill would be no small task. [read post]
1 Sep 2021, 1:07 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
We have called on President Biden and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack (under whose leadership the soring rule was finalized during the Obama administration) to swiftly reinstate and publish this rule in the Federal Register. [read post]
29 Apr 2012, 2:59 am
 Folks are ready to believe a doctor on TV telling them their food is safe; a vet is a stretch.- Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, should have been sent to Hanford, CA to appear from the scene on national network TV and on local California shows by early Wednesday morning. [read post]
2 May 2012, 2:59 am
  At a hearing in February, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told an appropriations panel that he'd like to see FDA's budget increased to absorb the program -- saying, "we don't think it's consistent with the mission of [the Agricultural Marketing Service]" -- but noted that the austere budget environment meant agencies had to make tough choices. [read post]
23 Feb 2012, 1:59 am
Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) grilled Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack over the cut. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 1:59 am
"In this budget, we are cutting programs not because we want to, but because we have to," said Secretary Vilsack in a statement. [read post]
20 Apr 2016, 10:01 pm by News Desk
Department of Agriculture to offer almost $5 million in new food safety grants. [read post]
18 Nov 2011, 7:11 am by Judicial Watch Blog
For instance, it will “improve healthcare and educational opportunities,” according to Obama’s Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. [read post]
12 Jun 2012, 2:59 am
At a recent Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the Fiscal Year 2013 budget, Cochran brought the issue up with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. [read post]
5 Sep 2023, 7:18 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
Protect horses from the cruel practice of soring >> We believed we had that answer six years ago, when in 2017 under the Obama/Biden Administration’s Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, the U.S. [read post]
23 May 2013, 10:25 pm by Dan Flynn
“USDA remains confident that these changes will improve the overall operation of the program and also bring the mandatory COOL requirements into compliance with U.S. international trade obligations,” said Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. [read post]
31 Oct 2009, 3:00 am
Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) routinely oversaw the operations.That's apparently what has Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack upset.Vilsack said the scenes in the Humane Society video are "deplorable" and "unequivocally unacceptable. [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 11:11 am by Judicial Watch Blog
” The sophisticated online program will assist efforts to expand the availability of healthy foods in low-income communities that lack “ready access” to it, according to Obama’s USDA Secretary, Tom Vilsack. [read post]
22 May 2015, 10:01 pm by U.S. Department of Agriculture
“This Memorial Day weekend and all summer long, I encourage families to get outside and enjoy our natural resources, national parks and forests, and the variety of food America’s farmers are able to provide,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. [read post]