Text of Senate Amendment 4373

Text of Senate Amendment 4373

Congressional Record, Volume 172 Issue 43 (Monday, March 9, 2026) [Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 43 (Monday, March 9, 2026)] [Senate] [Page S918] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [ www.gpo.gov ] SA 4373. Mr. PAUL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 4308 proposed by Mr. Scott of South Carolina (for himself and Ms. Warren) to the bill H.R. 6644, a bill to increase the supply of housing in America, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows: Strike title IX and insert the following: TITLE IX--FINDINGS AND SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING PROPERTY RIGHTS SEC. 901. FINDINGS; SENSE OF CONGRESS. (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following: (1) The Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States prohibit the Federal Government and State governments from depriving any person of their property without due process of law. (2) The origin of those clauses can be traced to Chapter 29 of Magna Carta, which was executed by King Henry III in 1225. (3) For centuries, the Anglo-American commitment to the rule of law recognized that no person would be deprived of his right to freely acquire, use, and dispose of property without a fair trial or just compensation. (4) Even during the Jim Crow era, in which the state legalized discrimination, property rights served as an antidote to government-imposed racism. The 1917 case Buchanan v. Warley, 245 U.S. 60 (1917), in which the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously struck down a segregationist housing restriction, stands for the proposition that property rights strengthen civil rights. (5) In Buchanan v. Warley, the Supreme Court found, ``Property is more than the mere thing which a person owns. It is elementary that it includes the right to acquire, use, and dispose of it. The Constitution protects these essential attributes of property.''. (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that Congress rededicates itself to the concepts of property and contract rights as inalterable principles of individual liberty and rejects any attempt to prohibit property owners from selling homes to investors of any kind, regardless of the size of the firm. ______