Norman J. Ornstein

Norman J. Ornstein is a Resident Scholar at the American
Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He also
serves as an election analyst for CBS News. In addition,
Ornstein writes for USA Today as a member of its Board of
Contributors and writes a column called "Congress Inside
Out" for Roll Call newspaper. He has written for the New
York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Foreign
Affairs and other major publications, and regularly appears
on television programs like The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,
Nightline, and Charlie Rose. He serves as senior counselor
to the Continuity of Government Commission, working to
ensure that our institutions of government can be maintained
in the event of a terrorist attack on Washington; his
efforts in this area are recounted in a profile of him in
the June 2003 Atlantic Monthly. His campaign finance working
group of scholars and practitioners helped shape the major
law, known as McCain/Feingold, that reformed the campaign
financing system. Legal Times referred to him as a principal
drafter of the law. He is also co-directing a multi-year
effort, called the Transition to Governing Project, to
create a better climate for governing in the era of the
permanent campaign. He is a member of the Board of Directors
of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and the Campaign
Legal Center and of the Board of Trustees of the U.S.
Capitol Historical Society. His many books include The
Permanent Campaign and Its Future; Intensive Care: How
Congress Shapes Health Policy, both with Thomas E. Mann; and
Debt and Taxes: How America Got Into Its Budget Mess and
What to Do About It, with John H. Makin.