House Members Call On Leadership To Bring Up Catfish Resolution
June 17, 2016 | 1 min to read
Lawmakers are digging in over who will oversee inspection of catfish imports, as a measure that would roll back Agriculture Department oversight awaits action in the House.
In a letter made public June 15, more than 150 members urged Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and others to bring the Senate-passed resolution (S.J. Res. 28) up for a vote before Congress leaves for its August recess. The joint resolution of disapproval, passed 55-43 in May, would move inspection from the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service back to the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA oversaw the inspection process until March, when a provision, passed as part of the 2014 farm bill, took effect and transitioned oversight (See previous story, 05/26/16).
In the letter, the bipartisan group of lawmakers said USDA inspection was too expensive and unnecessary.
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