Joe Pitts: “Thank you for your patience. I ask all guests please take their seats.”

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

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

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

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…