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The Congressional Fellowship Advisory Committee plays an active role in the direction of the fellowship. Members meet formally once a year to review program finances. They also meet throughout the year to discuss major initiatives.

The Committee currently consists of twenty eight members (including the fellowship Director), eight of whom are former Fellows. It also includes four sitting Members of Congress: a Democratic and Republican senator, and a Democratic and Republican representative. The Committee's diverse composition, ranging from academics and journalists to lobbyists and Members, is meant to both enhance and reflect the fellowship's success.

* Former APSA Congressional Fellow

MICHAEL BARONE
Senior Writer, U.S. News & World Report

DOUG BEREUTER
President, Asia Foundation; former Member, U.S. House of Representatives

DAVID BRODER
Columnist, The Washington Post; Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary, 1973

RICHARD COHEN
Chief Congress Correspondent, National Journal

CHARLES E. COOK, JR.
Editor and Publisher of The Cook Political Report; Political Analyst, National Journal Group

JOAN CLAYBROOK*
President, Public Citizen; former Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (CFP 1965-66)

THOMAS DASCHLE
Former U.S. Senator from South Dakota and former Senate Majority Leader

ROBERT DOLE
Retired U.S. Senator from Kansas from, serving part of that time as Senate Majority Leader; Republican nominee for President, 1996

SEN. RICHARD DURBIN (D-IL)
Member, U.S. Senate

RONALD D. ELVING*
Senior Washington Editor, National Public Radio; former Political Editor, Congressional Quarterly (CFP 1984-85)

EUGENE EIDENBERG*
Founder and Managing Director, Granite Ventures, LLC; former Executive Vice President, MCI; former White House Assistant under President Carter (CFP 1964-65)

VIC FAZIO
Partner, Clark & Weinstock; former Member, U.S. House of Representatives; Co-Founder of the California Journal

THOMAS FOLEY
Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP; North American President, Trilateral Commission; former Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives; former U.S. Ambassador to Japan

MICHAEL FRANC 
Vice President, Government Relations, The Heritage Foundation 

WILLIAM FRENZEL
Visiting Scholar, Government Studies, The Brookings Institution; former Member, U.S. House of Representatives

DAVID GERGEN
Professor of Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Editor-at-Large, U.S. News & World Report

ROBERT G. GILPIN, JR.*
Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University;
former Vice President of the APSA (CFP 1959-60)

LEE H. HAMILTON
Director, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars; Vice Chair, 9-11 Commission; former Member, U.S. House of Representatives

ALBERT HUNT
Executive Editor for Washington, The Wall Street Journal; Panelist, CNN's The Capital Gang

GARY HYMEL
Senior Vice President, Hill & Knowlton; former Chief-of-Staff to Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill

CHARLES O. JONES
Visiting Scholar, The Brookings Institution; former President of the APSA; Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin

GERALD KOVACH
Senior Vice President, External Affairs, NeuStar; former Senior Vice President, MCI

REP. RAY LAHOOD (R-IL)
Member, U.S. House of Representatives

RICHARD LUGAR (R-IN)
Member, U.S. Senate

ROBERT MERRY
President and Publisher, Congressional Quarterly

NORMAN ORNSTEIN*
Chair, CFP Advisory Committee; Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Senior Advisor, Pew Research Center (CFP 1969-70)

DAVID PRICE
Member, U.S. House of Representatives; former Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Duke University

COKIE ROBERTS
Political Commentator and former Co-Anchor of This Week, ABC News; Senior News Analyst, National Public Radio

CATHERINE E. RUDDER*
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Public Policy, George Mason University; former Executive Director of the APSA (CFP 1974-75)

BARBARA SINCLAIR*
Marvin Hoffenberg Professor of American Politics, University of California, Los Angeles (CFP 1978-79)