Michigan Governor To Testify Before Congress On Flint Crisis

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The announcement comes the day after the state government released a cache of 24,000 pages of documents detailing what officials knew about the crisis.



Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder said Friday that he will testify before Congress on the health crisis in Flint, where a disastrous decision to save money by switching the city’s water supply has sickened many with Legionnaire’s disease and potentially poisoned thousands of children with lead.

“The people of Flint have suffered because they were failed by all levels of government, and so it is understandable that there are questions at all levels of government,” the governor told the Detroit News.
The governor’s decision comes after his government released more than 24,000 pages of official emails and documents regarding the health crisis.

The emails, released in response to a Freedom of Information request, bring new revelations into the extent to which federal and state officials were aware of the incoming health crisis months before the dangers became known to the public. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and several other high-ranking officers have been the subject of much criticism for not acknowledging the problem until earlier this year.

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