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 and writes a weekly 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. At the 30th Anniversary party for The NewsHour, he was recognized as the most frequent guest over the thirty years.
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.
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. "The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track," co-authored by Thomas E. Mann, was published in August 2006 by Oxford University Press, with an updated edition in August 2008. It was picked both by The Washington Post and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch as one of the best books of 2006.
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 and writes a weekly 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. At the 30th Anniversary party for The NewsHour, he was recognized as the most frequent guest over the thirty years.
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.
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. "The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track," co-authored by Thomas E. Mann, was published in August 2006 by Oxford University Press, with an updated edition in August 2008. It was picked both by The Washington Post and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch as one of the best books of 2006.
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