Joe Pitts: “This program, designed to stretch scarce Federal dollars, is critically important for indigent and low-income patients.”

I for one in a portion of my life when I was a boy lived in a household where we didn't have access to health care.

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

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

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