[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 30 (Monday, February 27, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H952]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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IN SUPPORT OF H.R. 1433, THE PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS PROTECTION ACT OF 
                                  2012

  (Mr. PALAZZO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. PALAZZO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 1433, the 
Private Property Rights Protection Act of 2012. This bill represents a 
return of basic property rights to the American people, rights we are 
guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution. In 2005, these rights came under 
attack when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a corporation 
taking individual homes in the name of economic development. As a 
result, people lost their homes to false promises of jobs and tax 
revenue.
  Now, instead of a booming business, there is only a city dump where 
the homes once stood.
  I agree with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas when he wrote in 
his dissenting opinion:

       Something has gone seriously awry with this Court's 
     interpretation of the Constitution. Though citizens are safe 
     from the government in their homes, the homes themselves are 
     not safe.

  That is also why I supported an eminent domain amendment to the 
Mississippi Constitution, Mississippi Initiative 31, which 73 percent 
of Mississippi voters approved last November. I urge my colleagues to 
support property rights to the Constitution in H.R. 1433.

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