Tim Roemer's focus turns to preserving democracy

There are many fronts in the battle to preserve democracy, and former Rep. Tim Roemer is in the middle of the action on all of them.

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The Indiana Democrat, who served in the House from 1991 to 2003, has spent the past decade as a senior adviser and co-chair of Issue One's ReFormers Caucus, a bipartisan group of about 200 former public officials "united to fix our broken political system."

"We're working on everything from big money in politics to restricting gerrymandering to the Electoral Count Reform Act to how do we make Congress work better across the board," Roemer said.

"We'll sign on occasionally to amicus briefs. We will get involved in letters that we want to circulate. We're very, very supportive of restricting members of Congress from trading in individual stocks. So we're working on that issue as well right now, lots of different things to try to strengthen democracy and put country over party, and do it in a cross-partisan way."

Roemer is joined at the ReFormers Caucus by a prominent cast of former lawmakers, Cabinet members, governors and others. His co-chair is former Rep. Connie Morella, R-Md. He appeared with former Rep. Charles Boustany, R-La., on C-SPAN last month to talk about the group's efforts.