Louie Gohmert: “I so much appreciate the chairman and the proponents of this bill bringing it to the floor. What brings this about is…”

“I so much appreciate the chairman and the proponents of this bill bringing it to the floor. What brings this about is one more reason why it is critical that we do not have Supreme Court justices who read the Constitution while they are having visual hallucinations. That is what has been happening. There is no way to read this, ``Nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation,'' that is in the fifth amendment without realizing that means public use. It does not mean taking property from someone who has lived there for generations or some farmer that has been farming the land, to give it over to some developer just because he is going to give a bigger kickback to the local government. That goes back to the days of King George when he says, gee, you have been a good friend, you have paid taxes, but this guy over here has promised me a bigger kickback, so I am kicking you off your property. We had a revolution to try to stop that kind of thing. Anyway, I just want to put this question to my friends across the aisle. I know I have heard them express their concerns about constituents and the poor and those who cannot help themselves, and we ought to be helping them.…”