[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1504]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    WATER CRISIS IN FLINT, MICHIGAN

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, this past weekend I had the opportunity to 
travel with Congressman Dan Kildee, Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence, 
Congressman Sander Levin, and Congresswoman Debbie Dingell--we were 
joined by other Members of Congress, Sheila Jackson Lee, for example--
to see firsthand the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.
  I just want to report to Members of the House and the people of this 
country that what I saw was appalling. At this point, so many weeks 
after the lead crisis was identified, to have no central medical team 
examining those children is a sacrilege. To have no water buffalo 
supplied by the National Guard with pressurized PVC tubing taking water 
to people's homes, rather than just this bottle delivery; to have no 
hot showers that are portable, which the military has, that they could 
put in the schools in that community, to me, was absolutely appalling.
  I was told that the Governor of that State had not even met with the 
people of the community. He had come in for a press conference. Is that 
what this is about?
  I met children who had hemorrhages and ulcers from drinking that 
water, who had black rashes all over their bodies with pus.
  Our country has a responsibility to the citizens of this country. 
There ought to be a central coordinator. If that Governor can't appoint 
one, the President of the United States should. Those children and the 
citizens of that city ought to be taken care of.

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