[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4278]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     SEPARATION OF POLITICAL POWER

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, as the House takes up the topic of executive 
overreach this week, we should take a minute to note that this issue is 
institutional, not partisan.
  In a recent LA Times column, Jonathan Turley, after acknowledging 
that he agreed with many of the policies of the current administration, 
went on to say:

       In our system, it is often more important how we do 
     something than what we do. Priorities and policies and 
     Presidents change. Democrats will rue the day of their 
     acquiescence to this shift of power when a future President 
     negates an environmental law, or an antidiscrimination law, 
     or tax laws.

  The separation of political power among three equal branches was 
designed to guard against too much power accumulating in the hands of 
any one person or branch. This system is one of the main reasons our 
government has endured for nearly a quarter of a millennium.
  We should not cast it aside lightly.

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