[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 102 (Wednesday, June 17, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Page S2903]
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  SA 5839. Mr. PAUL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 5823 proposed by Mr. Thune (for Mr. Scott of South 
Carolina (for himself and Ms. Warren)) to the bill H.R. 6644, a bill to 
increase the supply of housing in America, and for other purposes; 
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        Strike section 1001 and insert the following:

     SEC. 1001. FINDINGS; SENSE OF CONGRESS.

       (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
       (1) The Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth 
     Amendments to the Constitution of the United States prohibit 
     the Federal Government and State governments from depriving 
     any person of their property without due process of law.
       (2) The origin of those clauses can be traced to Chapter 29 
     of Magna Carta, which was executed by King Henry III in 1225.
       (3) For centuries, the Anglo-American commitment to the 
     rule of law recognized that no person would be deprived of 
     his right to freely acquire, use, and dispose of property 
     without a fair trial or just compensation.
       (4) Even during the Jim Crow era, in which the state 
     legalized discrimination, property rights served as an 
     antidote to government-imposed racism. The 1917 case Buchanan 
     v. Warley, 245 U.S. 60 (1917), in which the Supreme Court of 
     the United States unanimously struck down a segregationist 
     housing restriction, stands for the proposition that property 
     rights strengthen civil rights.
       (5) In Buchanan v. Warley, the Supreme Court found, 
     ``Property is more than the mere thing which a person owns. 
     It is elementary that it includes the right to acquire, use, 
     and dispose of it. The Constitution protects these essential 
     attributes of property.''.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that 
     Congress rededicates itself to the concepts of property and 
     contract rights as inalterable principles of individual 
     liberty and rejects any attempt to prohibit property owners 
     from selling homes to investors of any kind, regardless of 
     the size of the firm.
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