Joe Pitts: “At this time, I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Jody B. Hice).”

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

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

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.