in 2007 (HLOGA), the establishment of the Office of Congressional Ethics in 2008, and House passage of the DISCLOSE Act in 2010. Awards and honors Wertheimer is the author of "Campaign Finance Reform: The Unfinished Agenda," published in the Annals of the American Academy of Political Science and Social Science and of "TV Ad Wars: How to Reduce the Costs of Television Advertising in our Political Campaigns," published in the Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics. He is the coauthor of "Campaign Finance Reform: A Key to Restoring the Health of Our Democracy," published in The Columbia Law Review. Wertheimer has received honorary degrees from Colby College, Grinnell College and the Claremont Graduate University. He is a recipient of the COGEL Award for outstanding service in the cause of open and democratic government, given by the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws, an organization of state and federal ethics enforcement officials. The New York Times has called Wertheimer the "dean of campaign finance reformers," and the Boston Globe has called Wertheimer a "legendary open-government activist. NPR Supreme Court Reporter Nina Totenberg said, "Fred Wertheimer has helped write every campaign finance reform law since 1974." In 2017, National Public Radio called Democracy 21 one of the most active groups investigating the Trump Administration's transparency and ethics and called Wertheimer "one of the progressive movement's leading strategists on ethics and campaign finance laws since the 1980s." Personal life In 1969 Wertheimer married Linda Wertheimer, now Senior National Correspondent for National Public Radio, and former NPR national political correspondent and co-host of the NPR news magazine program All Things Considered. References External links Democracy 21 1939 births Living people Lawyers from Washington, D.C. American lobbyists Campaign finance reform in the United States People from Brooklyn University of Michigan alumni Harvard Law School alumni Activists from New York (state) American chief executives