Joe Pitts: “The number of people in this audience and in the hallway this morning demonstrates the strong interest in this topic.”

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…

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

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