Honorable Robert C. Scott
United States Representative, Virginia, Democrat
Representative Scott, of the Third District of Virginia, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1977 to 1982 and in the Virginia Senate from 1983 to 1992. He sits on the Judiciary Committee, where he is the ranking minority member of the Subcommittee on Crime, and on the Committee on Education and the Workforce. The following is from the November 3, 2005, House floor debate on H.R. 4128, the Private Property Rights Protection Act.I rise to oppose the legislation, which is the congressional response to the Supreme…