[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 28 (Tuesday, February 23, 2016)]
[House]
[Pages H821-H822]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             THANKING MEMBERS FOR VISITING FLINT, MICHIGAN

  (Mr. KILDEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KILDEE. 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, Congresswoman Brenda 
Lawrence, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, and my friend and classmate 
Congressman Scott Peters, who spent the day with me yesterday in Flint.
  I want to thank them for having the back of the people of my hometown 
who are suffering right now with a water crisis that makes their water, 
the water for 100,000 people, not just undrinkable, but very dangerous.
  I also want to thank my Michigan colleagues Congressman Sander Levin 
and Congressman John Conyers for their many visits to Flint.
  The people in Flint are victims of a form of neglect that is almost 
unimaginable: neglect by their own government, by the State of 
Michigan, which was operating the city of Flint and failed to protect 
those citizens by ensuring clean and safe drinking water.

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  This is a crisis that demands a response equal to the gravity of this 
crisis. It demands a Federal response. It clearly demands a response 
from the State of Michigan far greater than what it has been given.

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