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Bernie Horn
Senior Director, Policy & Communications

CPA's Senior Director for Policy & Communications, Bernie Horn, has worked on state public policy for more than 25 years as a lawyer, legislative director, political consultant and policy director.

As Policy Director of CPA, Bernie manages all policy initiatives and analysis, as well as all communications programs for this nonpartisan state policy organization based in Washington, D.C. His latest CPA publications are the Progressive Agenda for the States 2006, a 300-page book that lays out 50 of the most innovative solutions being debated and enacted in the states, and Progressive Policy Models for the States 2006, a 298-page handbook containing 123 model bills.

From 1994 to 2000, Bernie was President of Strategic Campaign Initiatives, Inc., a political consulting firm that helped elect and reelect hundreds of legislators and other federal, state and local officials. Additionally, he helped win issue campaigns for increased gun control, tobacco taxes, and health care, and against casino gambling and restrictions on abortion. Between 1988 and 1994, Bernie directed legislative strategy in all state legislatures for Handgun Control, Inc. (now the Brady Campaign), and served as one of the chief lobbyists for the Brady Bill, drafted and lobbied for the federal ban on semiautomatic assault weapons, and conceived the federal ban on handgun sales to minors. Earlier, he was a campaign manager and issues director for congressional campaigns.

Bernie is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and the Georgetown University Law Center.

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