On the recordMarch 12, 2014
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. ____________________
