Interest Groups, Think Tanks, and Other Organizations

• The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
  "...dedicated to preserving and strengthening the foundations of freedom, limited government, private enterprise, vital cultural and political institutions, and a strong foreign policy and national defense through scholarly research, open debate, and publications. AEI research covers economics and trade; social welfare; government tax, spending, regulatory, and legal policies; US politics; international affairs; and US defense and foreign policies."

• Amnesty International

• The Brookings Institute
  "The Brookings Institution functions as an independent analyst and critic, committed to publishing its findings for the information of the public [and] ...serves as a bridge between scholarship and public policy, bringing new knowledge to the attention of decision makers and affording scholars a better insight into public policy issues."

• The Carter Center
  "The Carter Center is guided by a fundamental commitment to human rights, wages peace by bringing warring parties to the negotiating table, monitoring elections, safeguarding human rights, and building strong democracies through economic development."

• Center for Defense Information (CDI)

• The Center for Strategic & International Studies
  "[CSIS] has been dedicated to providing world leaders with strategic insights on, and policy solutions to, current and emerging global issues."

• Council on Foreign Relations
  "The Council on Foreign Relations is dedicated to increasing America 's understanding of the world and contributing ideas to US foreign policy. The Council accomplishes this mainly by promoting constructive debates and discussions, clarifying world issues, and publishing Foreign Affairs, the leading journal on global issues."

• The Cato Institute
  "...Promoting Public Policy Based on Individual Liberty, Limited Government, Free Markets and Peace."

• The Economic Policy Institute
  "The mission of the Economic Policy Institute is to provide high-quality research and education in order to promote a prosperous, fair, and sustainable economy. The Institute stresses real world analysis and a concern for the living standards of working people."

• The Heritage Foundation
  "...mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense."

• The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace
  "By collecting knowledge, generating ideas, and disseminating both, the Institution seeks to secure and safeguard peace, improve the human condition, and limit government intrusion into the lives of individuals."

• The Institute for Women's Policy Research
  "IWPR is a public policy research organization dedicated to informing and stimulating the debate on public policy issues of critical importance to women and their families. IWPR focuses on issues of poverty and welfare, employment and earnings, work and family issues, the economic and social aspects of health care and domestic violence, and women's civic and political participation."

• The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
  "The Manhattan Institute has supported and publicized research on our era's most challenging public policy issues: taxes, welfare, crime, the legal system, urban life, race, education, and many other topics. We have won new respect for market-oriented policies and helped make reform a reality."

• National Center for Policy Analysis
  "The NCPA's goal is to develop and promote private alternatives to government regulation and control, solving problems by relying on the strength of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector. Topics include reforms in health care, taxes, Social Security, welfare, criminal justice, education and environmental regulation."

• Oxfam America

• Project for the New American Century
  "...a non-profit educational organization dedicated to a few fundamental propositions: that American leadership is good both for America and for the world; that such leadership requires military strength, diplomatic energy and commitment to moral principle; and that too few political leaders today are making the case for global leadership."

• The Rand Corporation
  "RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis." Focusing on national security, international policy and other public policy issues.

• United States Chamber of Commerce
  "The world's largest not-for-profit business federation."

• The Urban Institute
  "The Institute's goals are to sharpen thinking about society's problems and efforts to solve them, improve government decisions and their implementation, and increase citizens' awareness about important public choices."