"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."
"The catfish inspection program is critical to public health."
"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."
"Explicitly creating a program exclusively for catfish seems to be unnecessary, and it directs resources away from high-risk foods."
"the jurisdictional grab serves only to shield catfish farmers against competition at the expense of U.S. consumers."
"Today's hearing will be taking a close look at the United States Preventive Services Task Force, created in 1984 as an independent, volunteer panel of 16 national experts in prevention, primary care, ..."
"Today's hearing is especially timely as we learned startling news over the summer, confirming our worst fears, that the some of the most significant health insurers--UnitedHealth, Aetna, Humana--are o..."
"the Affordable Care Act failing the American people."
"if they expanded Medicaid 50,000 of my constituents would have Medicaid, if the state expanded it."