Joe Pitts: “I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the distinguished Member from Nebraska (Mr. Fortenberry).”

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.

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…

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

The catfish inspection program is critical to public health.