Representative Joe Barton has served the Sixth District of Texas since 1984. In 2004, he was selected by his colleagues to be the Chairman of the House Committee on Energy & Commerce.  Barton has committed himself to passing legislation promoting an environment of high supply, low demand, consumer-friendly prices and environmental protection. A proponent of competition, Barton is additionally responsible for both the first electricity deregulation legislation to pass a House subcommittee, and for legislation which deregulated the natural gas industry.  Barton remains among the steadfast House leaders on tax reform through the promotion of lower taxes and financial freedom.  Barton and his wife Terri have homes in Ennis and Arlington, Texas.  He has four children, two stepchildren and five grandchildren.

Representative Marsha Blackburn serves the people of the Seventh Congressional District of Tennessee. She was sent to the U.S. House of Representatives at the start of the 108th Congress where she was one of only a few newly-elected congressmen selected to serve as an assistant whip on the majority whip team, and the first female in Tennessee elected in her own right to the U.S. House. In the 110th Congress she served as the Communications Chairman for the Republican Study Committee. A graduate of Mississippi State University and a small business owner, Blackburn has been involved in Tennessee grassroots politics and civic organizations for more than 25 years. She and her husband, Chuck, have been married for 33 years. They have two children and two grandsons.

Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. is the Junior Senator of Oklahoma.  As a citizen legislator, Sen. Coburn has pledged to serve only two Senate terms and to continue to care for patients.  From 1995 through 2001 Coburn represented Oklahoma’s Second Congressional District in the House of Representatives, ending his service by honoring his 3 term pledge.  During that time, Coburn played an influential role in reforming welfare, other federal entitlement programs, and trimming the budget.  Coburn returns frequently to Muskogee where he specializes in family medicine, obstetrics, and the treatment of allergies.  He has personally delivered more than 4,000 babies.  He and his wife, Carolyn, a former Miss Oklahoma, have three children and four grandchildren.  Sen. Coburn is a two-time cancer survivor.

Senator Bob Corker was elected into his first term seat by the people of Tennessee on November 7, 2006.  His road to the Senate began when, after graduating from the University of Tennessee in 1974 with a degree in Industrial Management, he worked four years as a construction superintendent, and then started his own construction company with $8,000.  The company grew quickly and eventually expanded to 18 states.  After traveling with his church on a mission trip to Haiti, he began to take a closer look at needs in his own community.  This led to the creation of Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, a non-profit organization that today has helped over 10,000 families secure housing.  In 1994, he was appointed Tennessee Commissioner of Finance and Administration, where he tightened the state’s budget and helped move almost 40,000 Tennesseans off welfare and into jobs.  In 2001, he was elected mayor of Chattanooga where he re-energized business, introduced merit pay in schools, and cut violent crime in half.  His success led to his election to the United States Senate.  He and his wife of 24 years, Elizabeth, have two daughters.

Kellyanne Conway is the President and CEO of The Polling Company, a woman-owned corporation founded in 1995.  Conway’s polling data and op-eds have appeared in numerous publications including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and National Review.  In 2004 her accurate prediction of the elections won her the Washington Post’s “Crystal Ball” award.  A founding member of the 2004 “W Stands for Women” campaign, Conway serves on the board of the National Journalism Center and the National Women’s History Museum.  She has provided research for clients across the United States and directed hundreds of surveys for statewide and congressional races, trade associations, and Fortune 100 companies.

Senator Jim DeMint has served the people of South Carolina in the Senate since 2005.  He is dedicated to the values that have made America great — individual liberty, free markets, and faith.  When DeMint was elected to the House of Representatives in 1998, his colleagues elected him president of the Republican freshman class.  In the 108th Congress, he introduced both the Social Security Savings Act and the Tax Reform Action Commission Act.  Recently, he was the only Senator to score a perfect 100 in the American Conservative Union’s 2008 Congressional Ratings.  DeMint serves on the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, as well as the Energy and Natural Resources, the Foreign Relations, and the Joint Economic Committees.  He and his wife, Debbie, reside in Greenville, South Carolina and are the proud parents of four married children.  They are also greatly enjoying their new role as grandparents.

Representative Virginia Foxx was reelected to her third term to represent North Carolina’s Fifth District in the United States House of Representatives in November 2008.  She was also one of just 38 Republicans to score a 100 percent approval rating from the American Conservative Union.  Prior to serving on Capitol Hill, Foxx spent ten years in the North Carolina Senate where she successfully sponsored several statewide and local bills and consistently voted against tax increases and for legislation that would make governments more efficient and less wasteful.  Foxx is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she received her A.B. degree in English and M.A.C.T. in Sociology.  She earned her Ed.D. in Curriculum and Teaching/Higher Education from UNC-Greensboro.  Foxx is the recipient of several state and national awards including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Spirit of Enterprise Award, the Family Research Council’s True Blue Award and the Alan Keith-Lucas Friend of Children Award, the highest honor granted by the North Carolina Child Care Association.

John Fund is a journalist and columnist as well as editor for the Wall Street Journal. The author of Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy and coauthor of Cleaning House: America’s Campaign for Term Limits, he writes a weekly “Political Diary” column for OpinionJournal.com. Fund worked as a research analyst for the California State Legislature in Sacramento before beginning his journalism career in 1982.

Representative Scott Garrett was recently sworn in to his fourth term in the United States House of Representatives, representing New Jersey’s Fifth Congressional District.  In addition to his senior position as the Vice Chairman of the House Budget Committee, Garrett is also Chairman of the Budget and Spending Task Force for the Republican Study Committee (RSC) as well as the Chairman of the Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Market and Government-Sponsored Enterprises.  Prior to his election to Congress, Garrett served in the New Jersey General Assembly.  He received the Proactive Policy of the Year Award from the New Jersey Business and Industry Association for auto insurance reform that was described as “the most important legislation of the decade.” He also earned the Legislative Leadership Visionary Award from the National Association of the Self-Employed and was named Legislator of the Year by both the Building Officials Association of New Jersey and the National Association of Small Business Owners.  He is a graduate of Montclair State University and earned his J.D. from Rutgers University Law School.  Garrett now resides in Wantage Township in Sussex County with his wife, Mary Ellen, and their two daughters, Jennifer and Brittany.

Representative Darrell Issa currently serves as California’s Representative for the 49^th Congressional District.  Issa founded Directed Electronics, served as Chairman of the Consumer Electronics Association, served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Electronics Industry Association, and as Director of the San Diego Economic Development Association and the Greater San Diego County Chamber of Commerce.  In 1994, Issa received the Entrepreneur of the Year Award from Inc. Magazine, Ernst & Young, and The San Diego Union-Tribune.  Issa was a leader in the successful effort to recall former California Governor Gray Davis in 2003.  In 1996, he also co-chaired the campaign to pass the California Civil Rights Initiative that ended racial and gender preferences and quotas in state contracting and college admissions.  Issa enlisted in the Army where served as a bomb disposal technician, tank platoon commander, computer R&D specialist, and attained the rank of Captain.  He is a graduate of Siena Heights University.  He and his wife Kathy have one son, William.

David A. Keene served as the Chairman of the American Conservative Union from December 1984 to February 2011.  He is also a managing associate at the Carmen Group, a lobbying firm in Washington, DC.  Keene attended the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he was the National Chairman of Young Americans for Freedom.  Since then, has been a John F. Kennedy Fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, a First Amendment Fellow at Vanderbilt University’s Freedom Forum, and a member of the Board of Directors at the National Rifle Association, among others.  Keene’s involvement in presidential politics extends back to the Nixon Administration, where he served as a Special Assistant to Vice President Spiro Agnew.  His Capitol Hill experience includes such varied roles as Executive Assistant to New York Senator Jim Buckley; Southern Regional Political Director for Ronald Reagan’s 1976 presidential campaign; National Political Director for George Bush’s 1980 presidential race; Senior Advisor to former Senator Bob Dole in 1988 and advisor to Dole’s presidential campaign in 1996.  Keene has also written for publications such as National Review, The Washington Times and The Boston Globe.  He is also a regular columnist for The Hill.

Anita MonCrief is the National Spokesperson for American Majority and the Editor-in-Chief of a new website, Emerging Corruption. She is also the ACORN/Project Vote whistle blower. She has worked with the American Bar Association Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative, the International Crisis Group, Grameen Foundation and Project Vote/ACORN. MonCreif has partnered with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on their mission to Macedonia as an election observer. In 2005, she joined the Strategic Writing and Research Department of ACORN Political Operations and its affiliate, Project Vote. In 2008 she came forward to expose the damage that ACORN has done to impoverished and marginalized communities. She also began to blog and write about corruption within the ACORN/Project Vote network of corporations. She is also a social artist and her works promote social change and poverty eradication.

Steve Moore joined the Wall Street Journal as a member of the editorial board on May 31, 2005.  Moore has been a frequent contributor to the Journal over the years, and was the founder and former president of the Club for Growth.  Over the years Moore has served as a senior economist on the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, as a budget expert for The Heritage Foundation and as a senior economics fellow at the Cato Institute, where he published dozens of studies on federal and state tax and budget policy.  He was a consultant to the National Economic Commission in l987, and research director for President Reagan’s Commission on Privatization.  Moore is the author of five books, most recently, The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let It Happen.  He is a graduate of the University of Illinois and holds a masters degree in economics from George Mason University.

Representative Tom Price serves the Sixth Congressional District of Georgia. He has held that office since being elected in 2004. Prior to going to Washington, Price served four terms in the Georgia State Senate – two as Minority Whip. In 2002, he became the first Republican Majority Leader in the history of Georgia. This year he was promoted to Deputy Whip, part of the Republican Leadership Team. Price serves on the Committee on Education and Labor, as well as the Committee on Financial Services in which he is the Deputy Ranking Member on the Financial Institutions Subcommittee. Price received a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Michigan and completed his Orthopaedic Surgery residency at Emory University. Price and his wife, Elizabeth, have one son and reside in Roswell, GA.

Representative Peter Roskam is the U.S. Representative for the Sixth Congressional District of Illinois and was named Chief Deputy Whip by Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy in 2010. He sits on the House Ways and Means Committee and is co-chair of the Republican Israel caucus. Roskam was recently named Vice-Chair of AmericaSpeakingOut.com, a platform created by Republicans to give voters a stronger voice to help shape the Republican agenda. Roskam started his political career working for then freshman Congressman Tom DeLay and his predecessor, Congressman Henry Hyde.  He would then go on to serve in the Illinois House and Senate. Outside of politics, Roskam has served as Executive Director of Educational Assistance Ltd., a nonprofit scholarship program for disadvantaged youth. Roskam earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois and his law degree from IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. During his years on Capitol Hill, Roskam met his wife Elizabeth. The couple lives in Wheaton, IL, with their four children.

Dino Rossi is a third-generation American and Washingtonian.  Rossi is one of seven children and worked his way through college with jobs in construction and as a janitor at the Space Needle in Seattle, graduating with a degree in business in 1982.  Rossi built a career in commercial real estate and co-founded the Eastside Commercial Bank.  In 1992, he lost his bid for the state legislature but was successful when he ran again in 1996.  He was re-elected in 2000 and in 2003 he served as Washington’s Chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee at a time when the state faced a its largest-ever budget shortfall.  In the 2004 election that would become the closest gubernatorial race in United States history, Rossi was certified as governor-elect before losing a second hand recount to Democrat Christine Gregoire.  He also ran for Governor of Washington in 2008, losing to Gregoire 47% to 53%.  In 2010, Rossi became a candidate for the United States Senate, losing a fiercely fought and closely decided race to Democrat incumbent Patty Murray.  Rossi and his wife, Terry, have four children.

Representative Paul Ryan is serving Wisconsin’s First Congressional District in his sixth term. He is the new Chairman of the House Budget Committee and author of the much discussed Roadmap for America’s Future. Prior to entering Congress, Ryan worked at Ryan Inc., Central, a construction firm founded by Ryan’s great-grandfather in 1884 that remains a family-owned and operated business. Ryan built an extensive career in public service, serving as an aide to former U.S. Senator Bob Kasten, an economic advisor and speechwriter for former Vice Presidential candidate Jack Kemp and former U.S. Drug Czar Bill Bennett, and a Legislative Director in the U.S. Senate. Ryan earned a degree in economics and political science from Miami University in Ohio. Ryan and his wife Janna live in Janesville with their daughter and sons.

Representative John Shadegg represented Arizona’s Third Congressional District from 1994 until 2011.  During his tenure, he established a reputation in Congress as a leading advocate for reduced government spending, federal tax relief, and the re-establishment of state and individual rights.  Shadegg gained a national profile when he ran for House Majority Leader to fill the vacancy created by Tom DeLay’s resignation.  During the race, Shadegg received the endorsement of newspapers, magazines, and blogs from across the country, including the Arizona Republic, The San Diego Union Tribune, The Rocky Mountain News, The Indianapolis Star, The Mobile Register, National Review, Human Events, and Townhall.com.  Shadegg served as Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee, the fifth-ranking position in the House Leadership, from 2005 to 2006.  At the time, he was the only member of the Republican Class of 1994 serving in the House Leadership.  From 2000 to 2002, Shadegg was chairman of the Republican Study Committee.  He and his wife, Shirley, have a son and a daughter.