Joe Pitts: “This is not a partisan issue; it is about children's health and lives. I urge my colleagues to support this bill.”

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.

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.

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…