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Here are at-a-glance highlights reel from a congressional hearing where Michigan's governor was grilled Thursday morning about Flint's poisoned water by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
These comments and exchanges are shared from Twitter and live blogging by Steve Neavling at Motor City Muckraker:
"I kick myself every day."
► "I kick myself every day for not during more. . . . This has been the most humbling experience in my life." -- Gov. Rick Snyder
► "“Plausible deniability doesn’t work unless it’s plausible. You were not in a medically induced coma. . . . I’ve had about enough of your false contrition and your phony apologies. You need to resign too, Mr. Governor.” -- Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-Pa.
► “You ignored the residents of Flint.” -- Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va.
► "There was a cover-up going on in the state of Michigan and the Department of Environmental Quality." -- Rep. Gary Palmer, R-Ala.
► "Don’t you have a moral responsibility to resign?” -- Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pa.
► "Gov. Snyder, you utterly failed in your responsibility to protect [Flint residents]. . . . This is a national disgrace and a national scandal.” -- Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y.
► "I find it ironic that Michigan's slogan is Pure Michigan." -- Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Ill.
► “It look like everyone knew about this problem but you. You were missing in action.” -- Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md.
. . . Snyder response: “I have to live with this for the rest of my life.”
. . . Cummings reply: “There are children who’ll live with it their whole lives.”
-- Alan Stamm
