Joe Pitts: “My colleagues and I in the Virginia delegation, particularly Congressmen Frank Wolf and Rob Wittman, appreciate you…”

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.

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.

The time of 10 o'clock having arrived, I will call this subcommittee meeting to order.

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…