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Monday, 24 April 2006 |
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| Congressman Christopher Shays |
Over 100 business and civic leaders gathered for a CED luncheon forum featuring Congressman Christopher Shays (R-CT). The forum highlighted the recent successes in campaign finance reform and underscored the need for further action in Washington to create lasting ethics and lobbying reform. Congressman Shays called for Congress to pass meaningful, bipartisan reform legislation.
CED President Charles Kolb moderated a panel discussion which included remarks from: Carol Darr, Director, George Washington's Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet, Graduate School of Political Management; Richard H. Davis, Managing Partner, Davis Manafort; and Norman J. Ornstein, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute. The event was hosted by CED Trustee Edward A. Kangas, Retired Chairman & CEO, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. The current climate of corruption in Washington, D.C. and the need for a coordinated call for reform was the theme throughout the speakers' remarks.
Congressman Shays has long been a principal champion of reform in Washington. He helped lead the fight for campaign finance reform in Congress that resulted in the passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA). CED has worked closely with Congressman Shays on campaign finance reform and played a key role in building support among the business community for enacting BCRA and in defending the law against a constitutional challenge in McConnell v. FEC.
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