Joe Pitts: “I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), vice chairman of the Energy and…”

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

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

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.