Dan Kildee

Thank you, to the panel, for a very interesting and important set of presentations.

By law, Congress must enact a budget resolution by April 15. That is Friday. Yet, after months of promising to return to so-called regular order, Speaker Ryan has failed to bring a budget to the floor of this House for us to act upon. I…

What happened to Flint and its residents, especially the kids, being poisoned in their own home absolutely breaks your heart.

I have said before and I am going to say it again that I am not interested in finger-pointing.

The Federal Government should work with the State to ensure that proper testing and monitoring is indeed taking place.

Here in the House we also took action and passed H.R. 4470, the Safe Drinking Water Act Improved Compliance Act, by a vote of 416-2.

Here in the House, we also took action when we passed H.R. 4470, the Safe Drinking Water Act Improved Compliance Act.

The ongoing crisis in my hometown of Flint, Michigan, is a real tragedy. This failure of government has affected 100,000 people--adults and children--who, after months and months, still do not have clean drinking water. It is my view that…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding and for her leadership. Congresswoman Kaptur has always been a great ally for me and even my predecessor, my uncle, on working to preserve and protect this incredible natural asset that we have--the…

My hometown is Flint, Michigan. When we leave here at the end of every week, I fly home to Flint. This is a very proud community. It is the birthplace of General Motors. It is where the UAW workers sat down in 1936 to get the first UAW…

I thank Mr. Tonko for his comments and his support and leadership on this issue. And I would like him to please extend my thanks to Ranking Member Pallone for his effort and his support. I know he is dealing with a difficult time himself…

I thank my friend for yielding. I appreciate all the comments and the support, especially the sympathy and, really, unity with the people of my hometown of Flint. I do want to ensure, though, that we are properly characterizing the…

This is a national crisis.

The families and the children exposed to high levels of lead in my hometown of Flint deserve action by the people who did this to them. The State of Michigan--Governor Snyder's administration--created this public health emergency through…

All of us who supported ACA are proud to have done that.

What has happened there is not only intolerable, inexcusable, but with consequences that we cannot foretell.

I would not be here today if it were not for health care reform and ACA.

I thank my colleague for conducting this Special Order and raising attention to this situation. Particularly on behalf of the people that I represent, the 100,000 people in my hometown of Flint, as difficult as this time has been, they do…

Every decision that was made for the city of Flint that relates to this crisis was made by a State-appointed emergency manager.

My hope is that that outrage translates into something more than just sharing the misery of the people of Flint.

Better action by people in government could have protected the people of Flint, and those players failed.

It's a reprehensible attempt to achieve what Dan Kildee calls the equivalency of blame.

Well, first of all, let me thank my friend, Mr. Garamendi, not just for that introduction and for his comments about my hometown, but for his leadership on this issue. This is the critical issue that really determines whether we are…

I will. I read this. It came from a writer from Detroit, a guy named Mitch Albom, who most people know for having written a bestseller, ``Tuesdays with Morrie.'' He came to Flint to interview children and to talk about what this whole…

It was the State emergency manager that made the decision to switch the city of Flint to the Flint River water source.