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Focus: Flint Water Crisis - Feb 4, 2016

By bartolo - Posted on 03 February 2016

Democrats call for Gov. Snyder to testify on Flint water, claim Oversight Committee Chair Chaffetz declined to invite him - Washington Examiner

Letter of Oversight Committee Democrats demanding testimony from Governor Snyder and aides on Flint water crisis - democrats.oversight

VIDEO: Rep. Cummings blasts Oversight Chair Chaffetz for not calling Gov. Snyder to testify at Flint hearing - Crooks and Liars

Congress grills EPA and Michigan State officials over Flint water - Business Insider

VIDEO: House Oversight Committee's Flint water crisis hearing (full) - YouTube

POLL: Poll finds Snyder approval plummets in Flint water wake (VIDEO) - WLNS

Protesters: 'Arrest Rick Snyder! Make him drink the water!’ (VIDEO) - MLive.com

How Rick Snyder doomed Flint from the start: Tax cuts for the ultra-rich, poison for the poor - Salon.com

Lawsuit seeks $150 million in damages for Flint residents related to the water crisis - detroitnews.com

Flint rebukes Michigan Governor Rick Snyder with federal lawsuit over water pipes, wants a federal judge to order the prompt replacement of all lead pipes - CBS News

MAP: See where the highest lead levels are being found in Flint water, more than 300 addresses in the city show results larger than the federal action limit of 15 parts per billion - MLive.com

Water crisis brings Democratic presidential debate to Flint - MLive.com

Who approved switch to Flint River? Decision to use Flint River water in the interim was made by governor-appointed emergency managers, not democratically elected city officials - MLive.com

Here's the June 2013 document signed by emergency manager Kurtz authorizing an engineering contract to figure out how to draw water from the Flint river - publicbroadcasting.net

Former Flint mayor on water crisis: 'This is the worst aspect of the emergency managers...resolutions weren’t going before the public…I didn’t find out about it until after the fact' - Michigan Radio

Emergency management laws and the political coup behind the Flint water crisis - LA Times

Anger in Michigan over appointing emergency managers - The New York Times

Flint whistleblowers who exposed their poisoned water: we’re just getting started - YES! Magazine

Michael Moore op-ed: 10 things they won't tell you about the Flint water tragedy. But I will - huffingtonpost.com

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