Word: vilsack
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...With Vilsack as agriculture secretary, Iowans will arguably have more influence over U.S. farm policy than ever before - the Senate Agriculture Committee chairman is Tom Harkin, of Iowa...
...have someone like Tom Vilsack, who understands Iowa the way he does, is going to be a tremendous benefit to us." - Mike Tramontina, director of Iowa's Department of Economic Development, Des Moines Register...
...Since dropping out of the presidential race in 2007, Vilsack has worked as a lawyer in Iowa, been a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and worked for the Iowa State Biosafety Institute...
...Vilsack has never lost an election. He was reportedly the 2004 short list of possible vice presidential candidates to run with John Kerry. Vilsack was the first Democrat to enter the most recent presidential campaign, but he dropped out after just several months, saying he couldn't compete with the fundraising ability of other candidates. He quickly endorsed Hillary Clinton and became a national co-chair of her campaign for the Democratic nomination. Despite Vilsack's support, Clinton lost the Iowa caucus to Barack Obama...
...hard to avoid the conclusion that this is agribusiness as usual. That said, there are reasons to be cautiously hopeful. Vilsack's spoken encouragingly about capping subsidies and using that money to drive a conservation agenda...On the other hand, he presided over the biggest expansion of feedlot agriculture in Iowa." - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food and a sustainable agriculture advocate, on Vilsack's prospects for bringing about change, National Public Radio...