Notable Participants Involved With the CCA

Bob Schieffer, broadcast journalism's most experienced Washington reporter, has been anchor and moderator of Face The Nation, CBS News' Sunday public affairs broadcast, since May 1991. He also serves as CBS News' Chief Washington Correspondent and is a regular contributor the the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.

Colin Powell is the former Secretary of State under President George W. Bush. Secretary Powell is also a former professional soldier who rose to the rank of 4-star General, served as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Joseph Biden became Vice President of the United States in 2009. He is a former Senator who served as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Commitee from 2001 to 2003, and again from 2007 to January 2009. He was first elected to the Senate in 1972 and was the fourth most senior Senator at the time of his resignation to assume the Vice Presidency.

Former Senator Robert Dole was a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army during World War II, where he suffered a seriously disabling injury. He was elected to serve as a member of Congress from 1960 thru 1968, and as a U.S. Senator from 1968 to 1996, during which time he was the Senate Majority Leader from 1985 to 1987 and again from 1995 to 1996, when he became the Republican Presidential candidate.

Former Senator Max Cleland who sustained severely disabling injuries in Vietnam, served as a member of the Georgia State Senate from 1971 to 1975. President Jimmy Carter appointed Cleland to head the U.S. Veterans Administration in 1977 and he served until 1981, at which point he became Georgia's Secretary of State and a U.S. Senator from 1997 to 2003.

Former Congressman Henry Hyde served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1975 to 2007. He was Chairman of the prestigious House International Relations Committee at the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Congressman Hyde passed away in 2007 at the age of 83.

Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, daughter of Pres. John F. Kennedy. Graduated from Radcliffe (Harvard) and later from Columbia Law School. In 1990, she published her first book, In Our Defense - The Bill of Rights In Action, and in 1996, co-wrote and published her second book, The Right to Privacy. She also recently published Profiles in Courage for Our Time and edited a collection of works in A Patriot's Handbook.

Samuel Knox Skinner served as Secretary of Transportation under President George H. W. Bush.

Richard Riley was Governor of South Carolina before being chosen by President Clinton in 1992 to serve as Secretary of Education for eight years. He was described by the Christian Science Monitor as "one of the great statesmen of education of this century."

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court since 1993. Ginsburg graduated first in her class from Cornell University and graduated at the top of her class from Columbia Law School.