Mr. Speaker, I rise today to give some thanks to some of my fellow Members of Congress for coming to my hometown of Flint, Michigan, yesterday. Specifically, I want to thank Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, Congressman Elijah Cummings…

Mr. Speaker, 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…

Mr. Speaker, 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…

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

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.

This is a national crisis.

Mr. Speaker, 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…

Madam Speaker, 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…

That's what I say; they're spreading the blame out.