Joe Pitts: “Nearly 50 million seniors rely on the Medicare program for their health care.”

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

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.

The catfish inspection program is critical to public health.

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