I just wonder if he will indulge the panel to respond to that last point.

You had a reasonable expectation, did you not, that you could rely on the government to protect you and your family?

If you're so passionate and sanctimonious about holding people accountable--and God knows we have done that in the 7 years I have been on this committee--then let's have Governor Snyder at this table explaining himself.

Flint, arguably, one of the worst municipal environmental tragedies in the modern era in the United States, and it was manmade.

This was a State failure.

I sometimes wonder on our committee, when we talk about Turkey, whether we can step back a little bit and look at context and attributes as opposed to looking for fault only.

Political choices have consequences, and Flint is the most dramatic in our generation.

This is a tragedy. It can not be fixed. But those who did this to Flint can stand up and make it right.

We need the pipes fixed in Flint. In fact, the Governor should write a check tomorrow for the $60 million that the mayor of Flint has asked for to replace the lead service lines.

The State, to my point of view, my perspective, has a moral responsibility not to just apologize.

I mean, Syria sends Hafez al-Assad, was the Soviet Union's one client state in the region, and that goes back to 1970.

I would like all of you to have an opportunity if you wish, from the United States point of view, and I worry how much this causes friction in our relationship with Turkey.

None of this is to whitewash real issues, but there is a context here. We want to make Turkey a more stable democratic state.

Mr. Connolly. Mr. Chairman, if I might be allowed just two more points.

I am not justifying his behavior at all, but, I mean, I think it is more that than it is culturally anti-West.

How worried should we be about that? And are there countervailing forces that can be looked to to try to redress what is, in fact, happening in Turkey?

Exxon-Mobil has come out for a carbon tax, carbon pricing.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to H.R. 515, International Megan's Law. While I support the underlying goal of ensuring that American law enforcement agencies share information on potential child sex offenders with foreign law…