Former Congressman, Vice-President, U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress
The Honorable Martin Frost served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1979-2005.
With 26 years of legislative experience, he is regarded as a preeminent political analyst among his peers. He held numerous leadership positions in his party and is also considered to be one of its top strategists, an innovative lawmaker who is able to craft bipartisan legislation, and a strong fundraiser for fellow Democrats. He is also the co-author, with Congressman Tom Davis (V-RA) of The PARTISAN DIVIDE: Congress in Crisis, which looks at how to solve the gridlock in Washington. In his presentations, Martin Frost addresses our current political climate, what to expect from Congress after the election, and what it takes to achieve bi-partisan cooperation.n, and what it takes to achieve bi-partisan cooperation.
Early in his political career, Frost served six years on the House Budget Committee and was chairman of the Health Task Force from 1985–1988. During the 1996 and 1998 elections, Frost was the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, a position he utilized to help his party gain 14 seats in the House. In 1999, he earned the distinguished role of chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, the party’s third-highest leadership role. During his last term, Frost held noteworthy positions as the ranking member of the House Rules Committee and highest ranking Southerner in the House Democratic Leadership. He was also the senior southern democrat in the House and the dean of the Texas congressional delegation.
Frost earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism and history from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Following his graduation from Georgetown Law School, he practiced in Dallas until his election in 1978. In 2005, Frost was a fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and in 2006, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars named him a public policy scholar.
Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School
Professor Derek Muller is a nationally-recognized scholar in the field of election law. His research focuses on the role of states in the administration of federal elections, the constitutional contours of voting rights and election administration, the limits of judicial power in the domain of elections, and the Electoral College.
He has published more than two dozen academic works, and his op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He has testified before Congress, and he is a contributor at the Election Law Blog. He is a co-author on a Federal Courts casebook published by Carolina Academic Press. He is also the co-reporter on a new Restatement of the Law, Election Litigation, an effort led by the American Law Institute.
Professor Muller teaches Election Law, Civil Procedure, and Evidence.
David Boies Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Former Congressman, Vice-President, U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress
The Honorable Martin Frost served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1979-2005.
With 26 years of legislative experience, he is regarded as a preeminent political analyst among his peers. He held numerous leadership positions in his party and is also considered to be one of its top strategists, an innovative lawmaker who is able to craft bipartisan legislation, and a strong fundraiser for fellow Democrats. He is also the co-author, with Congressman Tom Davis (V-RA) of The PARTISAN DIVIDE: Congress in Crisis, which looks at how to solve the gridlock in Washington. In his presentations, Martin Frost addresses our current political climate, what to expect from Congress after the election, and what it takes to achieve bi-partisan cooperation.n, and what it takes to achieve bi-partisan cooperation.
Early in his political career, Frost served six years on the House Budget Committee and was chairman of the Health Task Force from 1985–1988. During the 1996 and 1998 elections, Frost was the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, a position he utilized to help his party gain 14 seats in the House. In 1999, he earned the distinguished role of chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, the party’s third-highest leadership role. During his last term, Frost held noteworthy positions as the ranking member of the House Rules Committee and highest ranking Southerner in the House Democratic Leadership. He was also the senior southern democrat in the House and the dean of the Texas congressional delegation.
Frost earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism and history from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Following his graduation from Georgetown Law School, he practiced in Dallas until his election in 1978. In 2005, Frost was a fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and in 2006, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars named him a public policy scholar.
Trustee Professor of Law, New York Law School
From 1972-79, Schoenbrod served as one of the leaders of the Natural Resources Defense Council, where he campaigned to reduce lead in gasoline, resurrect the then-decrepit New York City subway, and protect the environment of Puerto Rico. Previously, he was Director of Program Development at the community development project that Senator Robert Kennedy established in Bedford Stuyvesant. He has also been a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the American Enterprise Institute.
His books include
D.C. Confidential: Inside the Five Tricks of Washington (Encounter Books, 2017) with forewords by Governor Howard Dean and Senator Mike Lee;
Breaking the Logjam: Environmental Protection That Will Work (Yale University Press, 2010)(with Richard B. Stewart and Katrina M. Wyman);
Saving Our Environment from Washington: How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People (Yale University Press, 2005);
Democracy by Decree: What Happens When Courts Run Government (Yale University Press, 2003) (with Ross Sandler); and
Power Without Responsibility: How Congress Abuses the People Through Delegation (Yale University Press, 1993).
In addition to writing scholarly articles, he has frequently contributed opinion pieces to the Wall Street Journal, The Hill, the New York Times, and other publications.
He has an undergraduate degree from Yale College, a graduate degree in economics from Oxford University, which he attended as a Marshall Scholar, and a law degree from Yale Law School.
Laurence H. Silberman Chair in Constitutional Governance and Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Co-Director, Antonin Scalia Law School’s C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State
Adam J. White is the Laurence H. Silberman Chair in Constitutional Governance and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on the Supreme Court and the administrative state. Concurrently, he codirects the Antonin Scalia Law School’s C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State.
Mr. White practiced constitutional and administrative law, particularly in the regulation of energy and financial markets. He started his legal career as a law clerk for Judge David B. Sentelle at the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.
Mr. White has written for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Affairs, Commentary, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, and Notre Dame Law Review, among other publications. He is a regular contributor to the Yale Journal on Regulation’s Notice and Comment blog, and for many years, he was one of the Weekly Standard’s lead writers on constitutional law and the Supreme Court.
Mr. White has testified often before Congress, including before the Senate’s Committees on the Judiciary; Commerce, Science, and Transportation; and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and before the House’s Judiciary and Financial Services Committees. In 2018, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary called him to testify in Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings to advise senators on Kavanaugh’s approach to administrative law.
In 2021, he served on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, where he criticized “Court packing” and other efforts to restructure the Supreme Court. In 2017, he was appointed to serve on the Administrative Conference of the United States. He also serves on the leadership council for the American Bar Association’s Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section, which he will chair in 2023–24. Before joining AEI, he was a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
Mr. White has a JD from Harvard Law School and a bachelor of business administration from the College of Business at the University of Iowa.
Former Congressman, Vice-President, U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress
The Honorable Martin Frost served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1979-2005.
With 26 years of legislative experience, he is regarded as a preeminent political analyst among his peers. He held numerous leadership positions in his party and is also considered to be one of its top strategists, an innovative lawmaker who is able to craft bipartisan legislation, and a strong fundraiser for fellow Democrats. He is also the co-author, with Congressman Tom Davis (V-RA) of The PARTISAN DIVIDE: Congress in Crisis, which looks at how to solve the gridlock in Washington. In his presentations, Martin Frost addresses our current political climate, what to expect from Congress after the election, and what it takes to achieve bi-partisan cooperation.n, and what it takes to achieve bi-partisan cooperation.
Early in his political career, Frost served six years on the House Budget Committee and was chairman of the Health Task Force from 1985–1988. During the 1996 and 1998 elections, Frost was the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, a position he utilized to help his party gain 14 seats in the House. In 1999, he earned the distinguished role of chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, the party’s third-highest leadership role. During his last term, Frost held noteworthy positions as the ranking member of the House Rules Committee and highest ranking Southerner in the House Democratic Leadership. He was also the senior southern democrat in the House and the dean of the Texas congressional delegation.
Frost earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism and history from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Following his graduation from Georgetown Law School, he practiced in Dallas until his election in 1978. In 2005, Frost was a fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and in 2006, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars named him a public policy scholar.
Trustee Professor of Law, New York Law School
From 1972-79, Schoenbrod served as one of the leaders of the Natural Resources Defense Council, where he campaigned to reduce lead in gasoline, resurrect the then-decrepit New York City subway, and protect the environment of Puerto Rico. Previously, he was Director of Program Development at the community development project that Senator Robert Kennedy established in Bedford Stuyvesant. He has also been a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the American Enterprise Institute.
His books include
D.C. Confidential: Inside the Five Tricks of Washington (Encounter Books, 2017) with forewords by Governor Howard Dean and Senator Mike Lee;
Breaking the Logjam: Environmental Protection That Will Work (Yale University Press, 2010)(with Richard B. Stewart and Katrina M. Wyman);
Saving Our Environment from Washington: How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People (Yale University Press, 2005);
Democracy by Decree: What Happens When Courts Run Government (Yale University Press, 2003) (with Ross Sandler); and
Power Without Responsibility: How Congress Abuses the People Through Delegation (Yale University Press, 1993).
In addition to writing scholarly articles, he has frequently contributed opinion pieces to the Wall Street Journal, The Hill, the New York Times, and other publications.
He has an undergraduate degree from Yale College, a graduate degree in economics from Oxford University, which he attended as a Marshall Scholar, and a law degree from Yale Law School.
Laurence H. Silberman Chair in Constitutional Governance and Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Co-Director, Antonin Scalia Law School’s C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State
Adam J. White is the Laurence H. Silberman Chair in Constitutional Governance and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on the Supreme Court and the administrative state. Concurrently, he codirects the Antonin Scalia Law School’s C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State.
Mr. White practiced constitutional and administrative law, particularly in the regulation of energy and financial markets. He started his legal career as a law clerk for Judge David B. Sentelle at the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.
Mr. White has written for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Affairs, Commentary, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, and Notre Dame Law Review, among other publications. He is a regular contributor to the Yale Journal on Regulation’s Notice and Comment blog, and for many years, he was one of the Weekly Standard’s lead writers on constitutional law and the Supreme Court.
Mr. White has testified often before Congress, including before the Senate’s Committees on the Judiciary; Commerce, Science, and Transportation; and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and before the House’s Judiciary and Financial Services Committees. In 2018, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary called him to testify in Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings to advise senators on Kavanaugh’s approach to administrative law.
In 2021, he served on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, where he criticized “Court packing” and other efforts to restructure the Supreme Court. In 2017, he was appointed to serve on the Administrative Conference of the United States. He also serves on the leadership council for the American Bar Association’s Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section, which he will chair in 2023–24. Before joining AEI, he was a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
Mr. White has a JD from Harvard Law School and a bachelor of business administration from the College of Business at the University of Iowa.
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