Joe Pitts: “At this time I am happy to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the subcommittee chairman of O&I, the gentleman from Florida (Mr.…”

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

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