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(MLive.com | File)

FLINT, MI -- A congressman wants to subpoena Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder for withheld documents he says are critical to the Flint water crisis investigation.

The letter - sent by U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, to Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Friday, Dec. 16 - accuses Snyder, a Republican, and his administration of withholding documents that are key to the investigation. It asks Chaffetz to subpoena Snyder, requiring his office to produce all documents requested within 30 days.

Snyder's office maintains that it cooperated with the committee and is focused on fixing Flint's water issues, according to spokeswoman Anna Heaton.

"The Governor's Office has provided the committee with hundreds of thousands of pages of documents at its request. The committee has now wrapped up its work on the matter. In Michigan, we are working hard each day to continue Flint's full recovery with funding for pipe replacement and health care for residents," Heaton said.

"It has been nearly a year since Gov. Snyder declared a state of emergency and we went to work fixing the problem, and that is where our focus remains. It's not productive to spend time engaging in partisan political attacks from out-of-state politicians."

However, Cummings alleges in his letter that the administration not only did not provide key documents, but that it refused to even search for them after committee requests were made.

"The Governor has refused to provide - or even search for - key documents. As a result, the Committee is still unable to answer critical questions about what the Governor knew about the crisis as it unfolded, why he did not act on concerns about water quality, even while his inner circle sounded repeated alarms, and why families in Flint continue to subsist on bottled water almost a year after he declared an emergency," Cummings' letter reads.

It also alleges the governor's attorneys "defied the Committee's requests for documents and refused to conduct searches," as well as delayed responding to the committee.

Attached to the letter were six pages of requests from Congress to Snyder's office for communication surrounding the water crisis, including: