Norman J. Ornstein is a resident scholar at AEI. He serves as an election analyst for CBS News, writes for USA Today as a member of its Board of Contributors, and authors a regular column entitled "Congress Inside Out" for Roll Call newspaper. In 1997 and 1998, he was cochair, with Leslie Moonves (president of CBS Television), of the President’s Advisory Committee on the Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters. He is the former codirector of the Renewing Congress Project and served as a member for the Commission on the Future International Financial Architecture, Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Ornstein is codirecting a multiyear effort, called the Transition to Governing Project, to create a better climate for governing in the era of the permanent campaign and is senior counselor for the Continuity of Government Commission. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Public Broadcasting System and of the Board of Trustees of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society and serves as a senior adviser to the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. Mr. Ornstein is the author of several books, including Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy, Vital Statistics for Congress, and most recently, The Permanent Campaign and Its Future, all co-written with Thomas E. Mann. He is a former professor at Catholic and Johns Hopkins Universities.

Joseph Antos is the Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy at AEI and an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health. He was the assistant director for health and human resources-the division providing Congress with analyses of proposed changes to federal programs and policies in areas such as health, income security, education, employment, and housing-at the Congressional Budget Office. Mr. Antos was the director of the Office of Research and Demonstrations and deputy director of the Office of the Actuary at the Health Care Financing Administration. He was the deputy chief of staff and the principal deputy assistant secretary for management and budget at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Gail Wilensky serves as the John M. Olin Senior Fellow at Project HOPE, where she analyzes and develops policies relating to health reform and to ongoing changes in the medical marketplace. She also cochairs the President's Task Force to Improve Health Care Delivery for Our Nation's Veterans, which covers health care for both veterans and military retirees. From 1997 to 2001, Ms. Wilensky chaired the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, which advises Congress on payment and other issues relating to Medicare, and from 1995 to 1997, she chaired the Physician Payment Review Commission. Previously, she served as the deputy assistant for policy development to President George H. W. Bush, advising him on health and welfare issues. Before that, Ms. Wilensky was the administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration, overseeing the Medicare and Medicaid programs. She testifies frequently before congressional committees, acts as an adviser to members of Congress and other elected officials, and speaks nationally and internationally before professional, business, and consumer groups.

Karlyn H. Bowman is a resident fellow at AEI. She joined the Institute in 1979 and was the managing editor of Public Opinion magazine until 1990. From 1990 to 1995, she was the editor of The American Enterprise, AEI's flagship magazine. Today Ms. Bowman continues to work on the magazine as editor of its public opinion section. Her publications include "Public Opinion toward Congress" (with Everett Carll Ladd) in Congress, the Press, and the Public (AEI-Brookings, 1994), The 1993-1994 Debate on Health Care Reform: Did the Polls Mislead the Policy Makers? (AEI Press, 1994), "The Gender Factor" in America at the Polls, 1994 (Roper Center, 1995), and Attitudes toward the Environment: Twenty-five Years after Earth Day, with Everett Carll Ladd (AEI Press, 1995). In 1996, she and Mr. Ladd wrote Public Opinion in America and Japan: How We See Each Other and Ourselves (AEI Press/Roper Center, 1996). Public Opinion on Abortion: Twenty-five Years after Roe v. Wade and Public Opinion about Economic Inequality (both written with Mr. Ladd) appeared in 1997. What's Wrong: A Survey of American Satisfaction and Complaint was published in May 1998. In 2000, AEI published "Public Opinion and the Clinton Legacy," a study by Ms. Bowman and Seymour Martin Lipset. She is a regular television and radio commentator, and since 1995, she has written a biweekly polling column for Roll Call.