Article: SULLIVAN LEGISLATION PROTECTS THE RIGHTS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS

Republicans on the House Energy & Commerce Committee issued the following news release:

Today, U.S. Rep. John Sullivan, R-Okla., introduced legislation to protect the rights of American private property owners. H.R. 6219, the Private Property Rights Protection and Government Accountability Act, will defend private property owners against the government's broadened eminent domain ability (which, in this case, is when the government seizes private property), because of the U.S. Supreme Court's unfortunate 2005 Kelo v. City of New London decision.

"The Supreme Court's 2005 decision in the Kelo v. City of New London case dramatically expanded the government's eminent domain abilities, ...

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