Transcripts and Speeches

Watch Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack's remarks live at 12:50 pm ET at: http://press.org/events/npc-luncheon-tom-vilsack-secretary-us-department-agriculture Good afternoon, everyone. I want to thank the National Press Club for the opportunity to discuss a complex environmental challenge American...

Speakers: Tom Vilsack, Secretary of U.S. Department of Agriculture, Sally Jewell, Secretary of U.S. Department of Interior, Ernest Mitchell, U.S. Fire Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Jeremy Sullens, Wildfire Analyst, Predictive Services, National Interagency Fire Center Monday...

G-8 Open Data for Agriculture Conference Aims to Help Feed a Growing Population and Fulfill New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition Commitment G-8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture Good Morning. Thank you for the kind introduction. I would like to welcome you to Washington...

Remarks as delivered by Secretary Vilsack Portland, Maine March 14, 2013 SECRETARY TOM VILSACK: Thank you. I want to thank everyone for being here today. Kevin and I had lunch yesterday and he was extraordinarily proud of Maine and Portland and what's being done here and I know he is disappointed...

COMING HOME Welcome Welcome to Massachusetts, my home state. I grew up in Greenfield, about 40 miles north of here. Springfield was then, and still is, the big city. My family would come to Springfield twice a year to shop at Sears for our school clothes. Me and my brothers loved that because we got...

SECRETARY VILSACK: Thank you very much. I want to thank the Deputy for that kind introduction and for her leadership on a number of issues, including the local and regional food systems, which has become an integral part of not just this conference but of agriculture and the economic opportunity in...

January 14, 2013 Nashville, TN SEC VILSACK: Thank you. Bob, thanks very much. It's always a pleasure to have the Farm Bureau President announce that you're going to -- that you've got a job for the next couple of years. And I was talking to Bob before this and suggested that I remember a year ago we...