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With non-citizens on food stamps, senator wants answers

| Caroline May
Jeff Sessions

Sessions presses USDA for info on non-citizen food stamp use, participation rates

Vilsack will not run for open Senate seat in Iowa in 2014 - TheDC

| Alexis Levinson
Tom Vilsack

Obama’s popular Secretary of Agriculture will not replace Tom Harkin

USDA met 30 times with Mexican gov't to promote food-stamp use among immigrants - TheDC

| Caroline May
Food Stamp Nutritional Assistance

About 1.63 million non-citizens living legally in the US collect food-stamp benefits

Vilsack answers school lunch uproar with snack solution - TheDC

| Caroline May
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack

Agriculture Secretary: ‘It’s not surprising that some youngsters will, in the middle of the day, be hungry’

Does agriculture secretary's memo on GOP budget violate Hatch Act? - TheDC

| Alex Pappas
Tom Vilsack

The Hatch Act bans campaign activity by federal employees

US to unveil new forest rules - AP

| InternAdmin
forest land

The forest planning rule will encourage forest restoration and watershed protection

Broadband company's demise puts taxpayers on hook for $74 million loan - The Washington Post

| Kells Hetherington
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack

Agencies that oversaw the venture defended their roles

Shirley Sherrod sues Andrew Breitbart over infamous USDA video clip - TheDC

| Daniel Keylin

Breitbart defiantly dismisses the suit as ‘transparent effort to chill his constitutionally protected free speech’

Government's job-killing broadband stimulus

| Raymond Keating

There’s no reason for the government to be in the broadband business.

Farmers call for spending cuts, can't agree where - AP

| admin

The nation’s biggest farm lobbying group supports a balanced budget. Just don’t ask its members where the government should trim agriculture spending

TheDC Morning: Gibbs crows about power of big government, gets facts completely wrong - TheDC

| Pat McMahon

Read TheDC Morning: An unvarnished e-mail summary of what’s really happening in political news

GIPSA chief is finger lickin' bad

| Billy Gribbin

J. Dudley Butler, an Obama administration appointee, is using his position to enrich himself.

Vilsack's 'boondoggle' of a plan - TheDC

| Amanda Carey

The Obama administration’s plan for renewable fuel standards will do little to help America’s problem with greenhouse gas emissions

E-Mail account reveals USDA reaction to Sherrod video - AP

| admin

Department acted swiftly to remove Shirley Sherrod, against her protests; tried to let story die quickly

Digging into the USDA - TheDC

| Caroline May

Republicans Michele Bachmann, Steve King, and Bob Goodlatte say as much as 80% of claims by 94,000 farmers could be fraudulent

Vulnerable Democrats rely on federal help - AP

| admin

Dems remind constituents of how often they’ve brought home the bacon

The color of class

| Pamela Varkony

What Shirley Sherrod and Elin Nordegren have in common.

Vilsack offered to resign over Sherrod - Politico

| Chad Brady (admin)

At the height of the race controversy, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack offered his resignation to President Obama

Shirley Sherrod to sue blogger Andrew Breitbart - AP

| admin

Fired USDA employee Shirley Sherrod announced at the National Association of Black Journalists convention that she plans to sue conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart

Democrats lose their groove; but they'll get it back

| Ed Ross

Things haven’t been going well for Democrats lately