News Briefs: Congressman Seeks Funding for Victims of Flint Water Crisis

U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee of Flint, Michigan, has announced that he will ask Congress to provide $50 million for the continuation of the Flint Registry, which is a federally funded program providing services to the victims of the Flint Water Crisis. The legislation will be introduced as the Flint Registry Reauthorization Act, and it aims to keep the program funded beyond 2021.“It does sound like a lot of money and it is,” Kildee said, according to Mlive.com. “But this is the consequence of the failure to make the investment we need to make in cities’ water infrastructure. As a society, we