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

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 catfish inspection program is critical to public health.

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