The following press release has arrived via e-mail:

A diverse and bipartisan group of experts will announce a set of consensus principles to reform congressional and legislative redistricting at a public briefing at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, November 2, 2005 in 1539 Longworth House Office Building. Members of the media are invited to attend.
The principles, to be released in a report entitled “The Shape of Representative Democracy,” are the product a two-day redistricting reform conference held last June. The report announces a set of principles divided into two categories – procedures for redistricting, and standards for redistricting – designed to “reform the country’s redistricting practices and improve our campaigns and elections, and more importantly our officeholders and governance.”
The briefing schedule is as follows:
Opening Remarks Hon. David Skaggs, former member of Congress,
Council for Excellence in Government
Comments Hon. Earl Blumenauer, Member of Congress, and
other Members TBA
Thomas Mann, Brookings Institution
Norm Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute
Kay Maxwell, President, League of Women Voters
Closing Remarks Trevor Potter, Campaign Legal Center
Call for Questions
Please RSVP to Megan Brimhall of the Campaign Legal Center at (202) 736-2200 or [email protected].
The redistricting conference was organized by the Campaign Legal Center, a non-partisan government reform group, and the Center for Democracy & Citizenship at the Council for Excellence in Government. The project was funded by generous support by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Council for Excellence in Government’s Venture Fund, the JEHT Foundation, the Reform Institute and the Educational Testing Service.