as has been noted, 43 states have acted to protect eminent domain rights. isn't it time for the united states congress to do the same? i urge my colleagues to support the private property rights protection act and yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia, mr. goodlatte, yields back. all time having expired, the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill h.r. 1944. those in favor will say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed, and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. mr. sensenbrenner: mr. speaker, on that i ask for the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this question will be postponed. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose d

a law called eminent domain allows governments to grab private property to build things like parks.more politicians are using eminent domain to grab people's land to help privileged developers. ryan briggs from the philadelphia city paper reports on this is here with us. >> a gentleman named rick young essentially lobbied local councilwoman for funding and eminent domain in an impoverished neighborhood in we philadelphia and he was also a political donor to that same councilwoman. >> it was handled poorly and their obvious ethical conflicts of the city knew about john: thank you for bringing this to our attention. we might thank you. john: politically connected, but what about the people who own property where the development is supposed to the studio is owned by this gentleman and the government plans to tone it down. >> unfortunately t the building was up for sale for 2.2 million. i have built 10 rooms and artist studios and they are fully lovable. john: this is serious art. >> i have five pieces in the philadelphiaaart museum and other pieces around the world. john: so the govern

this land somehow so they've sought to a you know have a challenge in court to make it clear that eminent domain would not apply in this case the second thing they've been doing is going at the legislative level and getting legislators to essentially this bill would prohibit the use of a. it's i mean for this private project right now the law allows i mean it's i mean but only for publicly regulated projects so this is kentucky law because the you know the federal in the culo decision the supreme court basically said you can have eminent domain and give that property to a private corporation if that corporation can simply demonstrate that they're going to pay more taxes on that land generating a public good i mean this is the conversation to talk is we need to get you know this regulated under the sun or under public purview and therefore you need effectively limited and the funny thing about it too is you see echoes of this kind of conservative impulse to protect private property you know i talked to one of the main co-sponsors of the bill in the senate in the kentucky senate and jimmy h

domain the original keystone northern leg was taken by eminent domain and if they do the keystone extra large the x.l. pipeline you know down the hook up to the southern line rather than to go over to the midwestern refineries that will be taken by a so. is there a follow through follow up on that richard or or you're gone ok sorry kevin in pottstown pennsylvania eminent domain by the way is under the under the fifth amendment it to fifth amendment gives the federal government or state or county governments for that matter gives government the power to take somebodies property as long as they're reimbursed the fair market value and the supreme court. as a rule that used to be only for public purposes like building a courthouse or a school or road now they can do it even to give it to a private corporation just so long as it it satisfies the public good and that's there's a very large questions in my mind so see keystone pipeline with that regard kavanah pas down pennsylvania avenue on talk about unemployment. i'm one of the one point six million people that are waiting for congress to s

will act similarly to freeze the high-speed rail bonds and the second to identify all bonds for the eminent domain procedures and that's not sxhivenlt with federal law if you move the funding through a due diligence process through eminent domain we're recommending it to stop because it will stop the construction seethe and finally, the next we're recommending this to have caltrans who are attempting to assess an individual's property for studies and analytic progresses they have to identify themselves even though it's part of the overall package to kill the speed rail we've taken a watch position because we don't know where the author is going to go. those are the recommended positions to the matrix. i have a couple of other things on policy areas and you may have read about them the the first item i think you're aware of the attempt by the contractors allied labor to qualify a measure for the ballot that will have a imposed tax on vehicles so far local road repair. after be looking at the language that the attorney general asphyxiate or proposed to affix to the petition and consulting wit

the greater group a law called eminent domain allows government to grab private property to build things and parks. however, lately more politicians are using eminent domain to grab people's land for privileged developers usually ones who give to the political campaign. they report in philadelphia. >> what happens there? >> a gentlemen named rick young who had a nonprofit he essentially lobbied a local counsel woman for funding and eminent domain privileges to build a supermarket impoverished neighborhood in west vil vil. he was also a political donor to the same councilwoman and simultaneously acted as a developer of the project and also oinwned land in the area. they would talk to about any of this. they are bringing in a supermarket to the area. >> they were conflicts the city knew about through out this process. >> politically connected developers win but what about the people who own property where the development is supposed to go. james owns a studio that the government plans to tear down there. they offered you money for it. they offered you 600,000 dollars. >> unfortunately the

that would be eminent domain. there would be a legitimate common carrier.'t feel so violated that we do now, especially since it is all foreign. it is the constitution of the united states. not the constitution of canada. >> what do you think your dad and grandfather would have said to this? >> they would have been out here, especially with my mother with a shotgun. my mother -- i mean, she was -- she just wouldn't put up with the government intervention. >> amazing how humans can fall in love with dirt, isn't it? >> that's what gives us life. >> if a disaster takes place on their land, two are responsible. for these nebraska residents, it is just so unclear. day, and i' talking about the money. i'm talking about the terms. i go over it every day and add to it what i want in it. and if it gets to the point i have to do it, i will do my best to negotiate the terms i want and the money will be secondary to what the easement says. >> what do you mean if you have to do it? >> if i have to sign -- it is so unclear. if you go to court over eminent domain, we have

a law called eminent domain allows government to grab property to build highways andbl parks.ever, lately more politicians are using eminent domain to grab people's land to help privilegeh developers. usually ones who give toed their political campaign. brian briggs from the philadelphia city paper who reports on this privilege runrep amuck in philadelphia. brian, what happened there? >> a gentleman named rick young, who has a nonprofit called thei community improvement association and he essentially lobbied a local council woman lb for funding and eminent domainf privileges to build a supermarket in impoverishedp neighborhood. he was also a political donor to that same council woman andhat simultaneously acted as a developer in that project and also owned land in that area. >> the council woman is janie blackwell. neither rick young nor janie blackwell would talk to us about any of this. they say they're just bringing in a supermarket to the area. it's a good thing. >> in this case, it was just handled poorly across the board. there were obvious ethical conflicts that the cit

they're taking on something like a collective eminence by students at eastern. i should also add that students at eastern have a fixed eye on their future careers. but unlike students at western, eastern students are convinced that for the types of futures they'll be having applying for full bright, taking clerkships, heading off to mckin subsidy or goldman sachs a bake sale won't look so good on resumÉs while they're in college. so clearly there's an institutional manufacture at eastern of being in a special economic community that shapes conservatives files. but we see this cultural seesaw bolstered by campus. they keep them on campus all four years an the well known clusters that live with many others for years. the campus is smaller than at western. means people know each other at least minimally by face. they feel more accountable to one another. and students eat communally in dining halls all four years in a way the students describe this is that they live in an eastern elite bull. self-contained sorel scene which wee argue conservative students ready to g

but it broadens its use of eminent domain and gave the government power to do it in almost any case.hinking? >> supreme court. >> unbelievable. >> what struck me about this case, generally eminent is j generally used to quote, further the public use. so a blighted neighborhood, tearing it down, bring in neighborhoods, bringing in commerce and jobs and so forth. we see more cases of using eminent domain to protect wild preserve and protect land and keep it natural and pristine. this seems to go even a step further. it seems like they are being punished for their behavior. if the root cause of this is driving the atv up to the cabin, it is not about keeping, just adding a piece of land to pristine wilderness, it is about punishing you because you're using this vehicle and taking your land away from you and taking your cabin away from you and condemning this cabin. >> and the fifth amendment requires just compensation. but that's always a big joke. just compensation is pennies. >> it appears with the condemnation here, they just knocked down the price and said the idea of just compensat

they were laser-like focused on eminent domain, do the ranchers control their land?ve been very effective waging that local battle on local concerns and local turf. >> absolutely, chris. i've spoken to ranchers who say i'm a card carrying member of the national rifle association, i don't want to talk to you about climate change, whether or not it's happening, but i know this pipeline is going to ruin my water supply if it leaks. i'm against it, my neighbors are against it. that's a winning coalition in that state. >> it's a winning coalition that at first had the republican governor when this first appeared as a political issue, when this first fell into this lap, it had him opposing the pipeline. >> absolutely. he and the republican senator, mike johanns were hand in hand opposing the original route before trans-canada changed it. >> nikki, what is the next step here in terms of keeping this kind of sustained pressure on, the process is obviously working its way through. we got the state department. what is the next step for the movement of folk who are try to fight

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they're taking on something like a collective eminence by being students at eastern. should also add that students at eastern have a fixed eye on their future careers. but unlike students at western, eastern students are are convinced that for the types of futures they'll be having -- applying for fulbrights, seeking clerkships, heading off to mackenzie or goldman sachs -- heading up a bake sale isn't going to look so good on their resumÉs, and they're very aware of this while they're in college. so clearly, there's an institutional ethos at eastern of being if in a special academic community that shapes conservatives' styles. but we see this cultural ethos being bolstered by the organizational features of campus as well. first, the housing system at eastern keeps students on campus all four years and in well known clusters. they live with one another for many years. the campus overall is much smaller than at western which means that people know each other at least minimally by face. they feel more accountable to one another. and student ises eat communeally, and dini

my death is eminent.do not get the major operation to replace the replacement aortic heart valve that i already have now -- if i don't have that replaced, and that's my choice, i am not go through the operation again, my death is eminent -- >> why don't you want to go through the operation? >> because it's a very, very brutal procedure. once you have had it done one time, you probably don't ever want to do it again. they take your heart out of your chest cavity, basically disconnect your heart from your body, put you on life support, take your heart, cut it almost in half, cut out we valve, stitch in the new cow valve and try to put it all back together and make you the same again. you are never really the same again. >> assisted suicide is illegal in colorado, so could you go to oregon to have this done or not? >> no, because i would have to become a -- like long-time resident. and it would take more time than what i have to become a resident there, and i would have to be working with two doctors for a p

at the same time it isn't default, it isn't really not eminent.ecause the last four years we haven't seen any economic policy measures so now it is the time to clean up the mess. and i would say basically this mess is cleaned up, the economy could prosper, even as a midterm perspective for 12 or 18 months. >> let's talk about where that help can come from. ukraine had been relying on a $15 billion bail out, to service it's debts and pay for it's imports. what is going to happen now with russian financial help and the gas discounts. >> it's unclear. russians officially declared that it will be willing to continue dealing with ukraine, and so on, so it's really unclear whether the help will really come. at the same time, i will see increasing chances of western help coming to ukraine, basically centers around the problem. [that was turned down in favor of closer ties is that still on the table, and is it waiting still for a new government. >> as i understand, yes, we have seen some comments from officials that might be some now -- not a break basica

. >> people in nebraska are very concerned about eminent domain and property rights.st state to sign off on this. the governor has changed his position. also, the senator has changed his position on this as well. 30% of the landowners in nebraska have not gone along with this. they're being very stubborn. >> there's 10,000 miles of pipelines in nebraska right now. almost all of those pipelines came across lands where they didn't want it. that happens to ranchers. my dad used to run them off with a shotgun, but they always came back with a lawyer. it'll go through the courts and eminent domain will happen. society needs these pipelines. they need these transmission lines. that's part of an energy system. >> governor, there have been no less than five environmental impact studies. the one, the most recent from the state department, which was released last friday, is now under investigation. do you believe this is a credible and unbiassed report? there have been no conflicts of interest from your knowledge about this report? >> well, i'm usually pretty distrustful about

could lose a treasured property along mississippi river to a bike trail under eminent domain.re going to speak to two sisters who have had this property in the family for more than 100 years and could be stripped from them. ♪ ♪ ♪ it's eb. want to give your family the very best in taste, freshness, and nutrition? it's eb. eggland's best. better taste. better nutrition. better eggs. >>> time for a quick check of headlines, former governor jeb bush admits his last name would be an issue and could hurt him if he runs in 2016. he says it's also an issue hillary clinton will face. >>> ousted president still on the run in ukraine a day after a warrant issued for his arrest. the new government said he's wanted for mass murder of protesters. he fled the capital over the weekend. >>> more cold weather over the week, much of the country will experience it. an expert tells live science.com says it may feel like the coldest since the polar jet stream went further south than usual. >>> attorney general eric holder sparking an uproar telling state attorney general there's no need to uphold c

anne prache is an eminent french medievalist who has devoted much of her professional life to the study of the cathedral of chartres and its stained-glass windows. the moment you get inside this church, the light changes, so you are really in another world, in a sacred world. it must have been a very great enterprise to decorate such a church. it is supposed to cover about 7 acres of windows, which is something terrific when you think of the means the people had at the time. the church is dedicated to the virgin, and you find her everywhere. she is the center of all the decoration of the church. if you look at the central window on the west facade, which is the largest window ever made in the 12th centur- 11 meters, something like 30 feet high-- you have a great composition, a kind of coration just as you could see on mals or on tapestries or on grt mosas. yo justshe is enthronede that between anls, so she is really the queen of heaven. for the stained-glass makers, they had no large pieces of glass. they had only small pieces because they blew the glass. they could not produce it as it

and transcanada had no right to come into our state and not only threaten eminent domain, but start toe our state constitution. >> when our politicians decide to trade away our property rights, you know, we need to step up and do something about it. >> legislative action gave nebraska governor dave heineman the executive authority to approve the pipeline. former nebraska state senator abby cornett talked about the power shift. >> there was heavy lobbying on both sides. >> over a million dollars transcanada has spent lobbying our state senators. we have a uni -- there is 49 state senators. they spent over a million dollars. they bought up every single lobbying firm except one so none of us could hire lobbyists to kind of be our voice. thinking group right here that are here, we're not lobbyists. those people out there, there is no lobbyist there is no people getting paid to be here. we're on our own time. >> i think the disinformation is largely stopped because they figured out it doesn't work. they're on to new and better tactics right now. >> abby cornett and other nebraskans have no

this week the eminent and nonpartisan congressional budget office regularly invoked by democrats blew that centerpiece into a million pieces. it told the law make theart economic impact of the raise in the minimum wage from the existing $7.25 an hour to $10.10 an hour amounts to a 40% add- on. 39.31% exactly. the winners would be 16.5 million workers who would welcome the hike including 900,000 who would be lifted above the poverty line. the losers would be 500,000 workers who get pink slips and the employers who must cope with their new burden by letting some workers go or canceling prospect active new hires, or canceling or modifying raises for present employees. jason furman is an obama factotum. he is chair of the white house council of economic advisors. he disputed the cbo report saying the agency relied on outdated economic research to estimate the job losses due to a higher minimum wage. he did not dispute the aspects of the cbo's estimates that were favorable to the obama administration's minimum wage proposal. question, what impact will the cbo report have on the congression

some of russia's most eminent geologists live in. the center of russia's diamond industry on the rocks down here in the most expensive in the country. the pits descends more than a kilometer under and uses the most sophisticated drilling equipment to get up the pressure. once the stones have been taken to assaulting sense and closely examined each rough gem is appraised. and only had a close only focused on my precious stone two. must be some kind of limestone. there i can see small crystals here proving that it's ancient rock. movement but really it shouldn't lights up should it really miss and. know it's false but it's luminescent as from. ok maybe you could make it luminescent if you really believed it right i think you did you really expected to go. maybe maybe i'm just not right. there's certainly something very special about this and this ground i don't know but it might just be because they use to pulling glittering thing this out of the dark here. but who wants minis diamonds with the top attraction in turn it was time to hea

if he doesn't, legislation allows him to seize the property oofrment no one wants to use eminent domain. to me there is no better appropriate use since our constitution provides all of us with eek wall rights to access the beach. >> abc7 news reached out to his attorneys for comment they have not yet responded >> another storm headed for atlanta. and officials are telling residents to be off roads early as they can and asking truckers to stay out of the city. authorities to avoid what happened two weeks ago. they kept drivers in cars overnight and students on buses. and liver thames burst it's banks. towns upstream are tlooded floods consumed a house the last symbol of defiance. >> remarkable we've had our driest let's talk about the forecast. we're in a wet and rainy weather pattern now. >> it's dry here. watching friday we had our umbrellas right now, i'm watching fog looking north. looking south, clouds moving through. you're going have to plan for foggy areas. that is going to slow you douvenlt we have clouds pushing lieu and some low level moisture so we're going to be dealing with

i don't think this creates a precedence nate's there's not the use of eminent domain. this is a deal so i don't think there's many opportunities for the city to negotiate the acquisition absent the redevelopment tool that's going away. the purpose of opposition to acquire the hoe down yard that's an option not an obligation of the city. it exists for 10 years and the state will have to make a policy decision there are going to be net precedes that will serve the project and if there are not net precedes or a purpose the city doesn't have to exercise the option >> i find it hard to see we make a purpose without a line of suit suitors who want to purchase the property. >> and this is where having the option and for 10 years gives the process time to unfold. we'll go through the rezoning area with the city and pg&e will get the authorization to actually dispose of the hoe down yard and we'll have new zoning on the site and the department of real estate can see if there's a line of suitors owe see if they want to exercise the option. and when it's rezoned to residential us