SUPPORT PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS – CALL YOUR U.S. SENATOR TODAY

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SUPPORT PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS – CALL YOUR U.S. SENATOR TODAY 
 
Our right to own private property is one of the most fundamental 
rights of Americans. That right is supported by the Fifth Amendment to 
the US Constitution allowing the government to take private property 
for public use with just compensation. Those rights have been 
threatened since the 2005 US Supreme Court decision in Kelo vs. City 
of New London. In a narrow decision, the court allowed the taking of 
private property for economic development. The decision was widely 
criticized and since then, 46 states have enacted new laws to protect 
private property rights. 
 
On July 23, 2018, the US House of Representatives voted UNANIMOUSLY to 
pass H.R. 1689, the Private Property Rights Protection Act of 2017. 
The bill would prohibit state or local government from exercising its 
eminent domain authority for economic development. This is a 
bi-partisan issue – supported by both Republicans and Democrats alike. 
This legislation has been introduced in every legislative session 
since the Kelo decision in 2005 but when it has made it to a vote in 
the House, it died in the Senate Judiciary Committee. 
 
Below is a list of all Senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee. If 
your state is on the list, please call one or both of your Senators 
and ask them to bring the Private Property Rights Protection Act to a 
vote. (Or just call each of them anyway - it can't hurt!) 
 
Don’t let them get away with claiming to support private property 
rights while failing to support efforts to strengthen laws to protect 
those rights. I have also included contact information for Wisconsin 
Senators Tammy Baldwin and Ron Johnson. Please call them and ask them 
to help get H.R. 1689 signed into law. 
 
This literally will take you less than five minutes but could impact 
you and your family for generations. Thank you. 
 
SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE 
Arizona / Jeff Flake (202) 224-4521 
California / Dianne Feinstein (202) 224-3841 
California / Kamala Harris (202) 224-3553 
Connecticut / Richard Blumenthal (202) 224-2823 
Delaware / Christopher Coons (202) 224-5042 
Hawaii / Mazie Hirono (202) 224-6361 
Idaho / Mike Crapo (202) 224-6142 
Illinois / Dick Durbin (202) 224-2152 
Iowa / Chuck Grassley (202) 224-3744 
Louisiana / John Kennedy (202) 224-4623 
Minnesota / Amy Klobuchar (202) 224-3244 
Nebraska / Ben Sasse (202) 224-4224 
New Jersey / Cory Booker (202) 224-3224 
North Carolina / Thom Tillis (202) 224-6342 
Rhode Island / Sheldon Whitehouse (202) 224-2921 
South Carolina / Lindsey Graham (202) 224-3808 
Texas / John Cornyn (202) 224-2934 
Texas / Ted Cruz (202) 224-5922 
Utah / Orrin Hatch (202) 224-5251 
Utah / Michael Lee (202) 224-5444 
Vermont / Patrick Leahy (202) 224-4242 
 
WISCONSIN SENATORS 
Tammy Baldwin (202) 224-5653 
Ron Johnson (202) 224-5323