John Yarmuth: “But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department... consists in…”

“But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department... consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others. So when you talk about the efforts of the White House... to withhold information that the Senate requires... we have been stonewalled on a number of occasions. And this is the type of activity that the Founding Fathers anticipated. They gave us the constitutional means to resist those encroachments. We need to continue to recognize those and to use them whenever we have to.”