Honorable James F. Sensenbrenner, Jr.
United States Representative, Wisconsin, Republican
Representative Sensenbrenner, of the Fifth District of Wisconsin, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1978. He served in the Wisconsin Assembly from 1968 to 1974 and in the Wisconsin Senate from 1974 to 1978. He chairs the House Judiciary Committee. The following is from the November 3, 2005, House floor debate on H.R. 4128, the Private Property Rights Protection Act.On June 23, the Supreme Court, in a 5-to-4 decision in the case of Kelo v. City of New London, transformed established constitutional principles when it held that the Fifth Amendment’s public use clause permitted government to…
