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

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

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

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.

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

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…

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…

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…

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

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…