Texas Landowner to Testify Before Congress About Property Rights Abuses
Julia Trigg Crawford, a Texas landowner fighting a legal battle with TransCanada over the rights to her family’s farm, will be in Washington on Thursday to testify in front of the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice during a hearing on the Private Property Rights Protection Act. Ms. Crawford will be discussing her personal experience with the use of eminent domain by a foreign company, as it is being used by the Keystone XL pipeline.
The bill filed in the 112th Congress as H.R.1433 can be read here.
The hearing will begin at 9am ET on Thursday and may be covered on C-Span in case you want to catch Julia’s testimony.