H 4616 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE May 9, 1995

homeowners, court of appeals judges.

Who have they missed?

The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr.

MORE ON PROPERTY RIGHTS

fLATOURETTE). Under a previous order

of the House, the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. MCINTOSH] is recognized for 5

minutes.

Mr. MCINTOSH. Mr. Speaker, the

gentleman asked a rhetorical question,

is there anyone who is perhaps left unaffected by this? I think the answer is

no. I am reminded of another group of

people that were gravely affected in my

district and that is the workers in my

district.

There is a town in the second district

of Indiana, Anderson, which for years

has been a very strong auto manufacturing town. GM has had numerous

plants there.

At one point I believe they employed

quite a large percent of the population

in that town, almost 50 percent. As

they have been downsizing some of

their operations, the town of Anderson

has been seeking to gain new employers. And one of the development

projects that they sought to bring into

their town was the new plant by the

Nestle ́ Corp. that would diversify some

of the jobs in that area, create hundreds of new jobs for people in the town

of Anderson.

As they looked at the site, Nestle ́

was considering Anderson and another

town out of the district in Indiana, a

couple other sites, and were about

ready to locate this new facility there

when they discovered that there might

be a wetlands problem in the land that

they were looking at to build this new

plant. The land had been farmland for

generations, was not something that

you would think of as an environmentally sensitive area. But because of

the threat that the government might

come in under the wetlands law and

deny them the permit to build this

plant, the Nestle ́ Co. says, we are going

to look elsewhere and located the facility somewhere else. Thank goodness we

were lucky they chose another place in

the United States. Sometimes we are

not so fortunate and we are sending

jobs overseas.

So the working man and woman in

this country suffer when these regulations cause jobs to be relocated so that

they cannot be built in our communities, another example of people who

are affected by this abuse of the regulatory powers.

Again, let me commend the gentleman from Louisiana for his courage

and effort in this area. I wholeheartedly support that.

Mr. TAUZIN. I thank the gentleman,

if the gentleman will yield. I want to

thank him and again particularly express my appreciation for accepting the

challenge to help us in this investigation, to get to the bottom of this, put

a stop to it, then eventually to change

some laws in this country so that the

fifth amendment of the Constitution is

not just some piece of paper, that it is

a real and enforceable right for Americans who are being deprived of their

property without just compensation

through these regulatory overkills.

I look forward to working with the

gentleman, thank him for joining me

tonight. And I think we both owe a

debt of thanks to the Chair for being so

patient with us this evening.

By unanimous consent, leave of abLEAVE OF ABSENCE

fsence was granted to:

Miss COLLINS of Michigan (at the request of Mr. GEPHARDT), for today, on

account of illness in the family.

Mr. ROGERS (at the request of Mr.

ARMEY), for today and the balance of

the week, on account of a death in the

family.

By unanimous consent, permission to

SPECIAL ORDERS GRANTED

faddress the House, following the legislative program and any special orders

heretofore entered, was granted to:

(The following Members (at the request of Ms. DELAURO) to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material:)

Mr. DEFAZIO, for 5 minutes, today.

Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts, for 5

minutes, today.

Ms. JACKSON-LEE, for 5 minutes,

today.

Mrs. MINK of Hawaii, for 5 minutes,

today.

Ms. KAPTUR, for 5 minutes, today.

Mr. MENENDEZ, for 5 minutes, today.

Mr. DEUTSCH, for 5 minutes, today.

Mr. RAHALL, for 5 minutes, today.

Mr. PALLONE, for 5 minutes, today.

(The following Members (at the request of Mr. EHRLICH) to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material:)

Mr. GRAHAM, for 5 minutes, on May 9,

10, 11, and 12.

Mr. DORNAN, for 5 minutes, on May

10.

Mr. KINGSTON, for 5 minutes, today.

Mr. FOX of Pennsylvania, for 5 minutes, today.

(The following Member (at his own

request) to revise and extend his remarks and include extraneous material:)

Mr. MCINTOSH

f, for 5 minutes, today.

EXTENSION OF REMARKS.

By unanimous consent, permission to

revise and extend remarks was granted

to:

(The following Members (at the request of Ms. DELAURO) and to include

extraneous matter:)

Mr. OBEY.

Mr. WARD.

Mr. HAMILTON in three instances.

Mr. KILDEE in two instances.

Mr. BECERRA.

Mr. RANGEL.

Ms. PELOSI in two instances.

Mr. ACKERMAN in two instances.

Mr. ENGEL.

Mr. DEFAZIO.

Mr. FOGLIETTA.

Mr. UNDERWOOD.

Mrs. MALONEY in two instances.

Mr. HALL of Ohio.

Mr. STOKES.

Mr. LANTOS.

Mr. JACOBS in two instances.

Mr. KENNEDY of Massachusetts.

Mr. DELLUMS.

Mr. REED.

Mr. FARR.

Mr. STARK.

Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota.

Mr. CONDIT.

Mr. DINGELL.

Mr. HILLIARD.

Mr. BROWN of Ohio.

Mr. RICHARDSON.

Mr. OBERSTAR.

Mr. BERMAN.

Mr. LAFALCE.

Mr. TORRES.

(The following Members (at the request of Mr. EHRLICH) and to include

extraneous matter:)

Mr. BAKER of California.

Mr. ROGERS.

Mr. SMITH of New Jersey.

Mr. WELLER.

Mr. DAVIS.

Mr. MARTINI.

Mr. NEY.

Mr. FORBES.

Mr. CASTLE.

Mr. SAXTON.

Mr. FLANAGAN.

Mr. PACKARD.

Mr. EWING.

Mr. GILMAN.

Mr. STUMP.

Mr. COOLEY.

Mr. TATE.

Mr. LEACH.

Mr. EMERSON.

Mr. BREWSTER.

(The following Members (at the request of Mr. MCINTOSH) and to include

extraneous matter:)

Mrs. KENNELLY.

Mr. MONTGOMERY.

Ms. FURSE.

Mr. BACHUS.

Mr. LAUGHLIN

f.

SENATE BILL REFERRED

A bill of the Senate of the following

title was taken from the Speaker’s

table and, under the rule, referred as

follows:

S. 103. An act entitled the ‘‘Lost Creek

Land Exchange Act of 1955’’; to the Committee on Resources.

BILLS PRESENTED TO THE

fPRESIDENT

Mr. THOMAS, from the Committee

on House Administration, reported

that that committee did on this day

present to the President, for his approval, bills of the House of the following titles: