[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 40 (Friday, March 3, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2590]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     URGING MEMBERS TO SUPPORT THE PRIVATE PROPERTY PROTECTION ACT

  (Mr. SHADEGG asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SHADEGG. Mr. Speaker, today on this floor we will vote on the 
Private Property Protection Act. This is critically important 
legislation, and I urge each and every one of my colleagues to support 
it. The principle in America that private property cannot be taken from 
our citizens without paying them just compensation for that private 
property is at the heart of our form of government. It is, indeed, one 
of those values that we as American hold sacred.
  Yet, yesterday Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt called this 
legislation an attack on America's great natural resources. Absolutely 
nothing could be further from the truth. It is a sad day in America 
when officials of our national government openly advocate taking 
property from our citizens without compensating that those who own that 
property.
  We are all agreed that we must protect our natural resources, but we 
must not do that by stealing property from them or by nationalizing 
their resources. I urge my colleagues to support the Private Property 
Protection Act.


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