[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 85 (Wednesday, June 29, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 29, 1994]
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            ATTENTION, DEFENDERS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS

  (Mr. TAUZIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TAUZIN. Mr. Speaker, over 100 Members of this House have now 
signed up as defenders of private property in America. Over 150 Members 
have signed onto House bill 3875, the private property owners bill of 
rights.
  Today we launch a discharge petition drive to bring that measure on 
the floor of the House. It is not because the committee system has 
failed it. It is because the Committee on Rules consistently refuses to 
allow the issue of compensation for private property takings to reach 
the floor of this House.
  Today Discharge Petition 23 has been filed. I urge Members of this 
body to sign up. As defenders of private property in America, we ought 
to make sure for every citizen of this country who owns property that 
when our Government takes that property from them, for whatever good 
purpose, be it an environmental purpose or otherwise, that they get the 
same kind of justice that large landowners can get when they can take a 
trip to the Supreme Court. That justice ought to be for compensation, 
for taking their property, for full payment by the U.S. Government as 
the fifth amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads.
  Last week on Friday, the Supreme Court upheld the sanctity of that 
fifth amendment protection as sacred as free speech in the bill of 
rights. I urge fellow Members to sign up as a defender of private 
property rights. Sign up Discharge Petition 23; sign up on House bill 
3875.

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