cartwright: would you hand him the letter, please? we will ask that this be made part of the record. rep. chaffetz: without objection. rep. cartwright: january 18, 2015, last paragraph on the second page, it's directed to you specifically. he says "there is nothing more important in flint right now than fixing the water problems." do you see that? do you admit getting that letter? gov. snyder: yes. rep. cartwright: the mayor asked you repeatedly to come to flint. you admit you did not show up for more than seven months after he asked you. gov. snyder: i am not familiar, i would have to check my schedule. rep. cartwright: that is what he says. gov. snyder: i don't know if that is correct or not. rep. cartwright: do you admit to seeing headline after headline about problems, hair loss, rashes, e. coli, bacteria and sewage, legionnaires disease? did you read any of those stories? gov. snyder: covers meant, i --congressman, i read a number of those stories. we have to follow-up them and continue to get information from career bureaucrats

the driver's attorney, rob cartwright, jr. >> he tried to put on the brakes, there were no brakes. >> reporter: today, police announced that their conclusion was that the driver may have mistaken the excaccelerator fore brakes. >> we believe the brakes were not pressed. >> to me that's absurd. i know my pedals on the vehicle. >> reporter: melvar, who is yet to recover, is disi pointed at the police report. >> the chp's accident investigation team assisted if the probe. >> the vehicle was in fine working order. the steering and brakes worked. >> reporter: police today cited him driving at an you have safe speed. cartwright would like to use his own specialist to examine the bus, but investigators disassembled crucial parts of the vehicle. it's now impossible he says to reconstruct the bus to see if there was in fact a mechanical failure. vic lee, "abc7 news." >>> to the latest now on the terror attack in brussels. a third bomber has been identified. law enforcement confirms to abc news that the suspect najip in el laachraoui was killed in the attack and is the suspected bombmaker on th

the driver's attorney, rob cartwright junior. >> trying to put on the brakes. there are no brakes. >> police announced they've finished investigating the crash. the conclusion, is that he may have mistaken the accelerator for the brakes when he tried to stop the bus. >> we have to show the pedal was pressed. >> his reaction? >> that is absurd. i know my pedals on the vehicle. >> reporter: he has yet to recover and is >> the chp's team assisted in the probe. >> the steering works and brakes works. >> police cited him with driving at unsafe speed. >> just to see above 40. even 25 miles per hour. >> cartwright would like to use specialists but said investigators disassembled parts of the vehicle during their probe. it's now impossible, he said, to reconstruct to see if there was a failure. vic lee, abc7 news. >> >>> university board of regents is expected to approve a agreement tomorrow as a committee approved the policy statement including a cause that condemns antisky onnist speech. critics say it debate. >> they do not want to be part of an investigation. >> th

matt cartwright/(d) pennsylvania) "people who put dollars over the fundamental safety of the people do not belong in government."meanwhile, republicans blasted e-p-a administrator gina mccarthy, noting that staffers knew of high lead levels as early as february of 20-15.(rep. jason chaffetz/(r) utah) "you had the authority, you had the backing of the federal government and you did not act."(gina mccarthy/epa itself was the responsibility of the state's - oversight was our responsibility."(paul gosar/(r) arizona) "you still don't get it. you have bread a of fraud."(gina mccarthy/epa administrator) "sir i'm not trying to shift responsibility."(paul gosar/(r) arizona) "yes you have! this whole hearing that's all you've done!"but for all the finger-pointing on capitol hill, residents of flint, michigan more concerned with fixing the problem than casting blamei'm reid binion, reporting it was a deadly mistake -- killing dozens of afghanistan civilians.but today... u-s military personnel will *not* face charges for that airstrike. airstrike.you'll remember the aftermath of that bombing at a

amy: matt cartwright telling governor snyder to resign.mays, how is this helping what is happening in flint? and what would that mean if the governor resigned? >> well, the biggest thing i think that the hearings are showing is that we matter. for two years, we have been yelling and screaming about the water and we did not matter, no one listened. here it is on a national scale in front of congress, and that just shows what happened to us is a crime, it is wrong, we are not crazy. we're hoping this will further any criminal investigation. they were both sworn in. there were lies told. we sat there and screened in the audience. if you resigned, honestly, it will not do -- he's doing very little in office as it is. all we can hope for is whoever follows behind him steps up and takes responsibility and fixes our city. amy: what do you feel is the governor's responsibility? for someone tuning in for the first time, they don't know what happened in length, michigan, why do you feel the governor is responsible? >> we were under a state of emerge

cartwright: would you hand him the letter, please? we will ask that this be made part of the record. rep. chaffetz: without objection. rep. cartwright: january 18, 2015, last paragraph on the second page, it's directed to you specifically. he says "there is nothing more important in flint right now than fixing the water problems." do you see that? do you admit getting that letter? gov. snyder: yes. rep. cartwright: the mayor asked you repeatedly to come to flint. you admit you did not show up for more than seven months after he asked you. gov. snyder: i am not familiar, i would have to check my schedule. rep. cartwright: that is what he says. gov. snyder: i don't know if that is correct or not. rep. cartwright: do you admit to seeing headline after headline about problems, hair loss, rashes, e. coli, bacteria and sewage, legionnaires disease? did you read any of those stories? gov. snyder: congressman, i read a number of those stories. we have to follow-up them and continue to get information from career bureaucrats that the water was

the driver's attorney, rob cartwright junior. >> trying to put on the brakes. there are no brakes. >> police announced they've finished investigating the crash. the conclusion, is that he may have mistaken the accelerator for the brakes when he tried to stop the bus. >> we have to show the pedal was pressed. >> his reaction? >> that is absurd. i know my pedals on the vehicle. >> reporter: he has yet to recover and is disappointed. >> the chp's team assisted in the probe. >> the steering works and brakes works. >> police cited him with driving at unsafe speed. >> just to see above 40. even 25 miles per hour. >> cartwright would like to use specialists but said investigators disassembled parts of the vehicle during their probe. it's now impossible, he said, to reconstruct to see if there was a failure. vic lee, abc7 news. >> >>> university board of regents is expected to approve a agreement tomorrow as a committee approved the policy statement including a cause that condemns antisky onnist speech. critics say it will stifle debate. >> they do not want to be part

here's one of the most heated echanges, which took place between governor snyder and matt cartwright.tion as soon as i learned there was a lead issue. >> i'm not buying that you didn't know about any of this until october of 2015. you were not in a medically induced coma for a year and i've had about enough of your false contrition and your phony apologies. people who put dollars over the fundamental safety of the people do not belong in government. and you need to resign, too, governor snyder. >> and joining me right now is congressman cartwright, always good to have you on the broadcast. good morning to you, sir. look, the easy part is getting these people in front of you. but what can congress do right now? can't you and your colleague versus some sort of emergency bill? >> well, a couple of things there, alex. and good morning, we are looking forward to a great day here in northeastern pennsylvania. i'll be stepping up in the girardville, st. patrick's day parade in schuylkill county, which is today. >> oh, good. >> yeah, we did have that nearing in congress this week and a couple

representative cartwright: a mentor that. i yield back. -- amen to that. i yield back. representative heise: to me, this is especially alarming just for the fact that high school students are using painkiller medication at alarming rates, which makes them 40 times more vulnerable to use heroin.

the driver's attorney, rob cartwright jr. >> he tried to put on the brakes, there were no brakes. >> reporter: they've finished investigating the crash. their conclusion, kenneth melvarious may have mistaken the accelerator for the brakes. >> the throttle was cracked. we believe the brake pedal was not pressed. >> reporter: his reaction? >> to me that's absurd. i know i put my pedals on the vehicle. >> reporter: melvarious is yet to recover from his injuries, is disappointed at the police report. >> there was a mechanical problem on the bus. >> reporter: the chp's investigation team assisted in the probe. >> the vehicle was in fine working order. >> reporter: police cited him for driving at an unsafe speed. >> a speed above 40. >> reporter: cartwright would like to use his own specialist to examine the bus, but says investigators disassembled crucial parts of the vehicle during their probe. it's now impossible, he says, to reconstruct the bus to see if there was in fact a mechanical failure. vuk vick lee, abc 7 news. >>> a new york city police officer who sparked protests across the

. >> reporter: cartwright also says he wanted this investigation to be conducted by an independent outlet. he says the evidence is essentially destroyed during the investigation. so the citation [ indiscernible ] [ loud background noise ] >> reporter: civil litigation is pending. from san francisco police department headquarters, jackie ward, kpix 5. >>> bart workers could soon get little something extra in their paychecks. the rail system is expected to give a $1,000 bonus to each of its 3300-plus employees like it did last year. it's because of the surge in ridership. bart signed off on the bonuses during union negotiation to settle the strike in 2013. critics say, though, the extra incentives come at a bad time. >> barred is in a financial crisis. they say they don't have money for spare parts, security cameras, new trains. and yet they are giving out thousands to employees. so we have a poor agency that now has all the money in the world to give to their employees, the highest paid transit workers in america. >> bart is going to ask voters to approve a bond measure to help fix the agi

. >> well, it was extremely satisfying hearing representative cartwright classifying his excuses and equating it to a domestic violence relationship. >> let me read a portion this. administrator mccarthy, you had the ability to act when you found out that things were not going right in these systems, and you have the compliance authority, don't you? and she responded, yes, sir, i do. and who was held accountable in the epa? well, sir, you have to look at it. was it -- she responded no, sir. any accountant to be found? >> you have people who have resigned. but they are able to keep their pensions and health insurance. >> is that really accountability some. >> no, it's not real accountable. >> epa director, mccarthy. should she lose her job? >> well, i feel like susan headman, the regional director, she did resign. >> well, what about the governor? what are your thoughts on the governor? should he go, should he resign, step down? >> well, the governor should resign. his policies created the flint water crisis and the emergency management. >> what's on the ground? how are you, how's you

reclaim act which is bipartisan and mister cartwright is the lead democrat on it. i would like to clarify, the doctor has left but we said nice things about his praise for the fish and wildlife service . the judge set aside that listing because as part of the fish and wildlife delisting they made it contingent on the states developing typically managed plans for the walls and those plans inhabit. we found the wholesale slaughter of the wolves, poisoning, trapping, anything other than recreational hunting so we will see how the court case goes and how it goes in the senate. i wanted to start with three thank youse.thanks so much for every kid in the park initiative. i think it's great to hear all these fourth-graders. we are taking fourth-graders from mount vernon woods elementary to the great falls. it will be a very exciting for them. i think it will perhaps change their lives to think about the outdoors in a different way. thank you for putting in your budget all the efforts to save the coalminers pension fund. i know there's 100,000 coal miners affected by this

matt cartwright: plausible s plausible. m asking you s any problem in the state of new york. sally: lawmakers raising concerns about water in their own states. brendan boyle: 18 cities in my exposure than flint does. >> even in the state of new jersey we have issues. sally: mccarthy says she' s asked every state to take action. gina mccarthy: relook and confirmed to us that they are implementing the law as intended. sally: lawmakers called on the epa administrator and michigan' s governor to resign. both say they will not be stepping down. sally kidd, wesh 2 news. angela: -- stewart: tonight we are getting a birds-eye view of the flooding situation in louisiana. this is drone footage, taken over the town of slidell. days of heavy rain led to severe flooding, washed out roads, and damaged homes. a major interstate in the area higher ground, until the weather finally moves on. the flooding is considered to be some of the worst the area has ever seen. angela: they are not getting a break. this is ongoing. we are finally getting some rain, which is good for central florida. not h

listen to this questioning of the governor by cartwright. >> you were not in a medically induced a comaand i've about had enough of your phony apologies. the epa does not bear one-tenth of the responsibility and she resigned and there you are dripping with guilt but drawing your paycheck, hiring lawyers at the expense of the people and doing your dead-level best to spread accountability to others. and not being accountable. it's not appropriate. pretty soon, we will have men who strike their wives saying, i'm sorry, dear, but there were failures at all levels. people who put dollars over the fundamental safety of the people do not belong in government and you need to resign, too, governor snyder. >> reporter: so that's an idea of how contentious this hearing is, jose. i can tell you that a reason why a lot of the democrats on the panel are so fired up today is because not only how the crisis played out, they interviewed some of the lower level people who were directly in charge of what happened in flint and it was passing the buck. i was reviewing the transcripts. the city person who di

matt cartwright/d pennsylvania "people who put dollars over the fundamental safety of the people do not belong in government, and you need to resign too, governor snyder." governor snyder testified that the e-p-a ignored early the contamination -- while e-p-a administrator gina mccarthy said the unreliable and inaccurate information. more local news now... the miami township police department is looking to make online sales safer... they've set up an internet safety zone at their milford...for anyone looking for a safe way to exchange items sold or bought online. there's this parking space...as well as the lobby...both will have video surveillance. switching gears one of the uc history...is real shot in the nba. sean kilpatrick...the 2nd leading scored in uc history...just signed a 3-year deal with the brooklyn nets. he's played with 6 different teams in his 2 years.... he told espn quote "for the past two years, i've been living out of a suitcase and i've been on edge about everything -- not being able to sleep because i didn't know where i'd be there's a new body image challenge - tha

when cartwright hits the three, it is a 2-point game.over, instead of folding, the cats win to advance to the finals 76 to 668. afterwards, jay wright with sean bell. villanova is in the big east title game for the second straight year. that game took a lot of mental skill. they stepped it up and came harder at us. we took a big punch there and then came back. great college basketball game. > the second straight trip to the title game for villanova than a a reminderç that big eat title game will be right here on fox tonight. tip off is set for 56789. 30. st. joe's and temple also have conference tournament games this afternoon. they both picked up quarter final withins yesterday. let's go back to you guys. i got that important text from my husband. he says that the hawks are down, gw, bill al ma mutterer. i am torn because i went to gw, love the colonials, i. i'm not mad about that. the pipes are calling you to join us. see karen all decked out in green. it's the big st. patrick day tomorrow. we're all marching in it. you can at least w

representative cartwright: a mentor that. i yield back. -- amen to that. i yield back. representative heise: to me, this is especially alarming just for the fact that high school students are using painkiller medication at alarming rates, which makes them 40 times more vulnerable to use heroin. the dea said that heroin is currently available in larger by aities, that it is used large number of people, and that it is causing the increasing number of overdose deaths in his expert? mr. milione: yes, sir. representative hice: i want to focus on where this is coming from. mr. milione, let me start with you. -- fromr test a meeting your testimony, it sounds to me like the da is going to focus less on the mexico-based organizations that are trafficking heroin and focusing thaton the street gangs are distributing heroin. we are never going to go away from our core mission of working up the chain. the link point that bridges the violent distribution sales domestically and also the cartels that are flooding the country with the heroin. it is absolutely not one or the other. it is

cartwright? >> thank you, mr. chairman. and to you secretary jewell for appearing here today and discuss the president's 2017 budget. secretary jewell, i'd like to discuss the abandoned mine lands and also the power plus programs to see what we can do to help clean up these old sites and provide economic development opportunities to rebuild our historic coal-mining communities, for the people of pennsylvania, especially those in my district, the problem of abandoned mines is one that we have lived with for decades. in fact, there are 575 abandoned mines in my district alone. creating 382 miles of asset drainage affecting streams. many live in communities struggling to recover from the decline of the coal industry, and with coal production lessening and major coal companies declaring bankruptcy and in light of the u.s. geological survey's recent revelation that coal reserves are not as abundant as once thought, this problem will only worsen nationally. i've introduced my own legislation, to provide more funds for clean up. o

cartwright. >> thank you, sally jewell, for appearing here today to discuss the president's 2017 budget. i would like to discuss the abandoned mine lands and power plus programs to see how to clean up these sites and provide economic development opportunities to rebuild our historic coal mining communities for the people of pennsylvania especially those in my district. the problem of abandoned mines is one we have lived with for decades. there are 575 abandoned mines in my district alone creating 382 miles of acid drainage affecting streams. many communities in my district and across the region live with the environmental legacy of the coal industry and living communities struggling to recover from the decline of the coal industry and with coal production of lessening across the nation and major coal companies recently declaring bankruptcy and in light of the u.s. geological survey's recent revelation that coal reserves are not as abundant as we had once fought, this problem will only worsen nationally. i have introduced my own legislation to close loopholes in coal royalties program to

cartwright's reclaim act. i would like to clarify dr. brenishek -- let's put out the judge set aside that delisting because as part of the fish and wild life delisting they made it contingent on the state on the plans. those plans didn't happen. so, we'll see how the court case goes and how it goes in the senate. >> i want to start with thanks, so much, for the every park initiative. i think it's great to take fourth graders out to great falls. it will be very exciting for them. we'll perhaps change their lives to think about the outdoors in a different way. thank you very much for putting in your budget all of the efforts to save the coal miners' pension fund. when the old thing went bankrupt, there's a lot of people that are just desperate. they spent their lives mining coal who suddenly had no pension or health benefits to look forward to. thank you very much for that. thank you for putting $2 billion in for coastal resilience project. again, the east coast, the atlantic, is so heavily affected by pit i'm sorry mr. young had left, in

cartwright for five minutes. >> governor snyder, i'd like to ask you some simple questions, and i remind you that you are under oath today. first i think you said this in your testimony, but you do admit here today before this committee that you and your administration failed the people of flint. >> i've made that clear in terms of my state of the state address -- >> your own task force found that your own department of environmental quality was "primarily responsible for the crisis in flint." do you also admit that here today? >> yes, and i took actions immediately based on the recommendations. >> your task force found that your officials at mdeq did not implement corrosion control, which "led directly to the contamination of the flint water system." do you admit that here today? >> uhm, the lack of corrosion control has led to this issue. >> and you admit that it was your officials at mdeq that did not implement corrosion control, which led to that, right? >> they did not instruct the city of flint to do corrosion controls. >> is that a yes? >> again, they wouldn't be doing the corrosi

cartwright for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr.ley, i want to revisit a question with you on the decision on using the flint river. you submitted an opening statement in writing, am i correct in that? >> that is correct, sir. >> and i read it, it said it was not my decision to use the flint river, nor was it a two-pronged decision. you said the concept of using the flint river as an interim water source was inherent in the vote in the march 2013 order. have i read that correctly? >> yes, sir. >> you said the decision to use the flint river was inherent in the city council's vote. that's as opposed to explicit. it does not explicit, correct? >> that is correct, sir. >> you know what? that's not what mayor walling testified to. in fact, mayor walling also submitted a written statement and he said, on page four of nine, contrary to the facts, governor snyder's office and former emergency manager darnell earley have stated and repeatedly blatantly false claims that i and the flint city council made the switch to the flint river. did yo

cartwright for five minutes. >> i'd like to ask you simple questions and i remind you that you are under oath today. first i think you said this in your 278 but you do admit here today before this committee that you and your administration failed the people of flint. >> i've made that clear in terms of my state of the state address. >> in your own task force found that your department of environmental quality was "primarily responsible for the crisis in flint." do you also admit that here today? >> yes, and i took actions immediately based on the recommendations. >> your task force found that your officials at mdeq did not implement corrosion control, which "led directly to the contamination of the flint water system." do you admit that here today? >> uhm, the lack of corrosion control led to this issue. >> and you admit that it was your officials at mdeq that did not implement corrosion control, which led to that, right? >> they did not instruct the city of flint to do corrosion controls. >> is that a yes? is. >> again, they wouldn't be doing the corrosion controls. that's a city respon

cartwright. >> thank you, acting chair mica. and thank you to all the witnesses for coming today. i've listened to all of your testimony, and it's well taken. i come from pennsylvania. in pennsylvania, hospitalizations for overdoses due to pain medication increased 225% from 2000 to 2014. drug overdose deaths in pennsylvania increased by 12.9% between 2013 and 2014. compared to a 6.5% increase nationally in the same time period. it's a huge problem in pennsylvania. and director botticelli, you mentioned attending a town hall. earlier this year i did a town hall in my district, in schuylkill county, pennsylvania. it's a rural place. typically we get between 30 and 40 people out for routine town halls. at this one, we had over 100 people come out. and nobody was smiling. every family is touched by this crisis. by this epidemic. the question is, what can be done to combat it? in pennsylvania, there is a company irroco pharmaceuticals who is using nano technology and is following the fda directive to use the lowest effective dose of nsaids for chronic pain. irroco is an african-americ