Joe Pitts: “I am prepared to close, so I continue to reserve the balance of my time.”

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

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

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.