Joe Pitts

This seems to smack of food politics, not public health.

Both the FDA and the General Accountability Office agree that there is no food safety justification for this regulatory divide.

The jurisdictional grab serves only to shield catfish farmers against competition at the expense of U.S. consumers.

Explicitly creating a program exclusively for catfish seems to be unnecessary, and it directs resources away from high-risk foods.

It seems illogical that the USDA would be given the exclusive authority to oversee and regulate catfish only while the FDA regulates all other seafood.

The time of 10 o'clock having arrived, I will call this subcommittee meeting to order.

Today's hearing will be taking a close look at the United States Preventive Services Task Force, created in 1984 as an independent, volunteer panel of 16 national experts in prevention, primary care, and evidence-based medicine and tasked…

It is embarrassing that in the most capable country in the world, in the most powerful elected bodies in the world that we effectively have done almost nothing to improve the health care of Americans since this law has been passed.

I for one in a portion of my life when I was a boy lived in a household where we didn't have access to health care.

Because of the Affordable Care Act, now over 20 million people in this country who were in that situation literally overnight are no longer in that situation.

It is unfortunate that we have a Congress of the United States, the majority parties that want to just tear down this law.

Administrator Slavitt, CMS announced that APTC and CSR subsidies would be ended for 2016 enrollees who received APTCs in 2014 but did not reconcile these payments on their federal taxes.

This is frustrating and alarming.

If they expanded Medicaid 50,000 of my constituents would have Medicaid, if the state expanded it.

Today's hearing is especially timely as we learned startling news over the summer, confirming our worst fears, that the some of the most significant health insurers--UnitedHealth, Aetna, Humana--are opting out of Obamacare's health…

The Affordable Care Act failing the American people.

Today's Health Subcommittee hearing will examine the Federal mental health parity laws and regulations.

Parity means that insurers need to treat copayments, treatment limits, prior authorization for mental health, substance use disorder the same way they treat for physical health care.

In 2008, Congress passed a bill requiring most group health plans to provide more generous coverage for treatment of mental illnesses.

H.R. 1807, the Sickle Cell Disease Research, Surveillance, Prevention, and Treatment Act of 2015, sponsored by Rep. Danny Davis (IL) and Rep. Michael Burgess (TX) reauthorizes a sickle cell disease demonstration program.

H.R. 3119, the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act, sponsored by Rep. Engel (NY) increases the number of permanent faculty in palliative care.

I thank my colleague, Rep. Pete Olson, for sponsoring this important legislation which will be welcome news for the over 100,000,000 people afflicted with diabetes or pre-diabetes.

H.R. 1717, the Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Reauthorization Act or the STOP Act, sponsored by Rep. Roybal-Allard (CA) provides for programs and activities to prevent underage drinking.

A recent Institute of Medicine report released just last week estimates that one in five trauma deaths may be preventable.