Bob Barr: “let me get this straight, my colleagues. The author of this amendment says that the underlying proposal, the underlying…”

“let me get this straight, my colleagues. The author of this amendment says that the underlying proposal, the underlying bill here, reminds him of Alice in Wonderland. Well, maybe he is familiar with a version of Alice in Wonderland from upstate New York; but it sure is not the version of Alice in Wonderland that we are familiar with down in Georgia. As a matter of fact, his amendment is as much like the looking glass in Alice in Wonderland as the looking glass was. Let us look at what the gentleman who is proposing this gutting amendment is really saying. This is his amendment. It says: ``Strike all after the enacting clause.'' Strike it. Wipe it out. All of its guarantees, all of its process, all of its substance. Strike it out. And then let us replace it with something that he calls the Private Property Rights Implementation Act of 2000. He very generously steals the title of the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Canady), but that is the last similarity between these two pieces of paper. He is saying that the only property rights that individuals will have for a reasonable, expedited, fair appeal to Federal Court, to assert a Federal guaranteed right, is if the Federal Government is coming in and taking property, as if it does not matter, in this Alice in Wonderland world of his, that some other government authority is coming in and snatching the property away. That is okay in his Alice in Wonderland world.…”