Joe Pitts: “The subcommittee will come to order. The chair will recognize himself for an opening statement.”

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.

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.

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.