Joe Pitts: “I am pleased to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Collins).”

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.

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