Joe Pitts: “I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentlelady from North Carolina (Mrs. Ellmers), a member of the Subcommittee on…”

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.

Both the FDA and the General Accountability Office agree that there is no food safety justification for this regulatory divide.

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.

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