Q&A with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 16th, 2010 5:35 am by HL
Q&A with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack
When Tom Vilsack became head of the Agriculture Department last year, he faced a backlog of 11,000 civil rights complaints and several unresolved class-action lawsuits from minority farmers and ranchers.
USDA rules to emerge from fight over imported catfish
The whiskered, bottom-feeding catfish is one of the lowliest creatures on Earth. But for months, catfish have been at the center of an intense Washington lobbying effort pitting domestic producers against importers.
Hillary Clinton warns of Revolutionary Guard’s growing influence in Iran
RAWDAT KHURAYIM, SAUDI ARABIA — Iran is increasingly acquiring the attributes of a “military dictatorship,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton asserted repeatedly Monday, pointing to how the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has grabbed ever-larger chunks of the country’s economic, milita…