Snyder May Be Called To Testify Before U.S. House On Flint Water Crisis

A U.S. House committee is tentatively planning a hearing for early February to talk about the Flint water crisis and it wants Governor Rick Snyder to come testify.

This marks the first congressional inquiry into the high lead levels in Flint’s drinking water.

U.S. Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence, who sits on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a letter to leaders on the committee asking for a hearing.

In the letter, she calls the crisis a man-made disaster that stemmed from poor decisions by elected officials.

Flint’s mayor, the former head of the state’s Department of Environmental Quality an EPA director and the Flint doctor and Virginia Tech researcher who first uncovered the hazardous lead levels in the city’s water could also be invited to testify.