He chairs a non-profit foundation with his wife, Joyce. The Rumsfeld Foundation supports leadership and public service at home and the growth of free political and free economic systems abroad. The Rumsfeld Foundation funds microfinance projects, fellowships for graduate students interested in public service, the development of linkages between young leaders from Central Asia and the Caucasus and the United States, and charitable causes that benefit the men and women of the U.S. armed forces and their families. His proceeds from the sales of Known and Unknown will go to the veteran's charities sponsored by the Rumsfeld Foundation.

Mr. Rumsfeld completed his second tour as Secretary of Defense in December 2006. A former naval aviator, Secretary Rumsfeld previously served as U.S. Congressman, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, White House Chief of Staff, Special Presidential Envoy to the Middle East, and chief executive officer of two Fortune 500 companies.

Secretary Rumsfeld led the Defense Department in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, to include the liberation of Afghanistan from the Taliban and Al Qaeda and the liberation of Iraq from the regime of Saddam Hussein, and overseeing the reform and transformation of America's military to be better able to meet the challenges of the 21st Century.

Mr. Rumsfeld attended Princeton University (B.A., 1954) on scholarships. He served in the U.S. Navy (1954-57), and was all-Navy wrestling champion and a captain in the Naval Reserve. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois in 1962, at the age of 30. He resigned in his fourth term in 1969 to join President Nixon's Cabinet, where he served successively as the Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, Director of the Economic Stabilization Program, Counsellor to the President, and U.S. Ambassador to NATO.

In August 1974, he was called back to Washington, DC to chair the transition to the Presidency of Gerald R. Ford. He later served as White House Chief of Staff and a member of the Cabinet (1974-1975), and as the 13th U.S. Secretary of Defense, the youngest in the country's history (1975-1977).

From 1977 to 1985 he served as Chief Executive Officer, President, and later Chairman of G.D. Searle & Co., an international pharmaceutical company. The successful turnaround there earned him awards as the Outstanding Chief Executive Officer in the Pharmaceutical Industry from the Wall Street Transcript (1980) and Financial World (1981). Mr. Rumsfeld served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Instrument Corporation from 1990 to 1993. Until being sworn in as the 21st Secretary of Defense, Mr. Rumsfeld served as Chairman of the Board of Gilead Sciences, Inc., a pharmaceutical company.

Throughout his business career, Mr. Rumsfeld continued his public service in a variety of posts, including President Reagan's Special Presidential Envoy on the Law of the Seas Treaty, Special Envoy to the Middle East, chairman of the U.S. Ballistic Missile Threat Commission in 1998, and chairman of the Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization.

Mr. Rumsfeld is a resident of New Mexico and spends time in Washington D.C. and Maryland.

Mr. Norquist is president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a taxpayer advocacy group he founded in 1985 at President Reagan's request. ATR is a coalition of taxpayer groups, individuals and businesses opposed to higher taxes at the federal, state and local levels. ATR organizes the TAXPAYER PROTECTION PLEDGE, which asks all candidates for federal and state office to commit themselves in writing to oppose all tax increases. In the 112th Congress, 237 House members and 41 Senators have taken the pledge. On the state level, 13 governors and 1249 state legislators have taken the pledge.

Norquist chairs the Washington, DC - based "Wednesday Meeting," a weekly gathering of more than 150 elected officials, political activists, and movement leaders. The meeting started in 1993 and takes place in ATR's conference room. There are now 61 similar "center-right" meetings in 47 states.

Reed served as a senior advisor to George W. Bush's presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2004 and chaired the Southeast Region for Bush-Cheney in 2004.

Under his leadership as party chairman in 2002, the Georgia Republican Party elected the first GOP governor in 134 years and a U.S. Senator. Reed was youth co-chairman of the Reagan campaign in 1984 and has worked on seven presidential campaigns and advised 88 campaigns for Governor, U.S. Senate, and Congress. The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the finest political operative of his generation."

Reed has been named one of the top ten political newsmakers in the nation by Newsweek, one of the twenty most influential leaders of his generation by Life magazine, and one of the 50 future leaders of America by Time magazine.

As executive director of the Christian Coalition, he built one of nation's most effective grassroots public policy organizations, with over 2 million members. Reed is founder and chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, a grassroots public policy organization with 400,000 members and activists operating in over 250 local chapters in all 50 states.

He is the author or editor of five best-selling books and his columns have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and National Review.

Reed serves on the Board of Visitors for The University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs and on the Executive Board of the Northeast Georgia Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He is a member of the Advisory Council of SafeHouse, a faith-based organization helping the poor and needy.

Reed earned a B.A. from the University of Georgia and Ph.D. in history from Emory University. He and his wife Jo Anne have four children and reside in Duluth, Georgia.

Cardenas has succeeded through hard work, cofounding Tew Cardenas LLP law firm, establishing a wealth management company, a real-estate development company, and serving on the board of several financial institutions.

In 1993, Cardenas was unanimously elected Vice-Chairman then Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida. In his decade of service the Florida GOP gained majorities in the state legislature and congressional delegation for the first time since reconstruction.

In 1980 and beginning in 1975 at just twenty five years old, Cardenas served as Florida Co-Chair of Reagan's presidential campaigns and delegate to the conventions. Cardenas headed the transition team for President Reagan's US Department of Commerce and chaired the Council on Small and Minority Business Affairs. In 1978 Cardenas ran for Congress against liberal Claude Pepper.

Mr. Cardenas is a regular opinion editorial columnist for El Diario, the largest circulating Spanish-speaking newspaper in the country and has frequently appeared on network television, CNN, FOX, MSNBC, Univision, CNN Espanol, and Telemundo.

Cardenas holds a law degree from Seton Hall University (J.D., 1974) and is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court and has been counsel of record in precedent-setting and published court decisions and was selected by his peers as one of "The Best Lawyers in America" from 2007 through 2009.

Cardenas and his wife of 29 years, Diana, reside in Key Biscayne, Florida. They have five children and four grandchildren.

In 2010, Glen served as pollster for the successful campaigns of five Senators, one Governor, and 27 Members of Congress. In addition, Glen served as the pollster for seven successful major statewide Independent Expenditure campaigns, as well as the largest Independent Expenditure in the congressional races, working in 76 congressional races, including 49 of the seats Republicans took away from Democrats. Overall, Glen polled in 53 of the 63 Republican pick-up districts.

In 2009, Glen served as pollster to Bob McDonnell's come-from-behind Gubernatorial win in Virginia. For his work on that campaign, Glen was named the "Pollster of the Year" by the American Association of Political Consultants. This marks the second time, along with 2002, that Glen has won this prestigious award.

In state legislative races, Glen has polled for successful Republican legislative candidates in Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, and Washington State.

Glen's corporate polling experience includes crisis management polling for some of the top issues in recent years, as well as image and message work for major clients such as Wal-Mart, BlueCross BlueShield of Florida, Tyson Foods, BNSF Railway, Catholic Health Association, Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, and numerous Fortune 500 companies.

Prior to co-founding Public Opinion Strategies, Glen was the Director of Survey Research & Analysis for the National Republican Congressional Committee, the political arm of the House Republican Conference. Glen is a graduate from The American University in Washington, D.C. Glen and his wife Carol have three daughters.

Under Adams' leadership, the League has quickly taken Washington by storm as a highly-influential, grassroots powerhouse of more than 400,000 individual members nationwide. In its first year, Adams raised over $10 million for the League from over 70,000 individual donors nationwide.

Dick Morris, the famous FOX News analyst, has called the League "the most effective grass-roots organization in America." He credits the League with killing Obama's dreaded "public option" in his health care plan.

Former Senator Fred Thompson, who led the League's successful Renew the Bush Tax Cuts campaign, says "One of the reasons I like the League of American Voters is that they are above partisan politics. They want to do what is right for the country."

And when Gov. Scott Walker took on the bloated employee unions in Wisconsin, it was the League who led the fight to support Gov. Walker, launching an intensive media campaign to expose Obama's bloated public unions.

Adams and his League are not without detractors.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says the League is a "hate group."

For having the audacity to oppose tax hikes, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow used a full segment of her show to smear Adams' good name on national television.

He even struck a nerve with the doctrinaire liberal League of WOMEN Voters, who repeatedly demand Adams "cease and desist" the League's campaign to repeal Obamacare.

Taking it all in stride, Adams says "I wear these attacks a badge of honor."

Over the course of nearly two decades, Adams has established a rich history of involvement in conservative politics, beginning his career during the "Republican Revolution" of 1994 as a press assistant to Congressman J.C. Watts, Jr.

In 2000, Adams served as the communications director and a senior aide to Republican Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan. He left the campaign when Buchanan went to the Reform Party.

Throughout the Bush Presidency, he served as a key strategist in senior communication roles with the American Legislative Exchange Council, the nation's largest, bipartisan membership organization of state legislators.

In 2004, Adams was elected statewide by Republicans as a Delegate to the Republican National Convention, and served as the GOP's nominee for State Treasurer.

In 2008, Adams lost a tightly-contested race as a candidate for the West Virginia Senate by 200 votes out of nearly 54,000. A testament to his sharp political skills, he nearly pulled-off an upset in a traditionally Democratic state, against a former two-term Democratic state senator in a disastrous election year for Republicans nationwide.

Bob Adams serves as a member of the national board for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), one of the "Big Four" historic civil rights groups in America, and a founding board member of Super PAC for America and Birthright of Charlestown, West Virginia.

He and his wife Allison have four home-schooled children, and reside in West Virginia.

Governor Parnell first served in the Alaska House of Representatives in 1992 at the age of 29. He was re-elected in 1994 and served one term in the Alaska State Senate from 1996 to 2000. Governor Parnell was an active member on the House Finance Committee, the Senate Finance Committee, the Energy Council, and chaired numerous budget subcommittees.

During the 2010 legislative session, the Parnell Administration successfully pursued creating economic opportunities and establishing safe and healthy families in Alaska. Through legislation creating infrastructure projects, gasline development, and a competitive tax climate for tourism, Governor Parnell worked with the Legislature to boost Alaska's economy. Another project Governor Parnell has shaped with the Alaska State Legislature is the Alaska Performance Scholarship, a program designed to incentivize Alaska's youth for greater academic performance and empower students to pursue higher education through college or technical training. Finally, Governor Parnell is committed to ending the epidemic of domestic violence and sexual assault that has existed in Alaska. In 2010, the Parnell Administration joined Alaskans across the state to challenge Alaskans to "Choose Respect" through a statewide campaign and effort that is continuing.

Keene was the National Chairman of Young Americans for Freedom as a University of Wisconsin undergraduate and graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School. He 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 Visitors at Duke University's Public Policy School.

Keene served as a Special Assistant to Vice President Spiro Agnew in the Nixon Administration, as Executive Assistant to New York Senator Jim Buckley on Capitol Hill; 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 his 1988 and 1996 Presidential races; and a senior advisor to Governor Mitt Romney in his 2008 Presidential race.

Like many conservative leaders, Keene was raised a Democrat. His father worked as a union organizer and served for years as the President of the Rockford, Illinois Labor Council. His mother was a former President of the International Auxiliary of the United Auto Workers.

Keene serves as The President of the National Rifle Association and Chairman of their Legislative Policy Committee. As an attorney, political activist and columnist, Keene has written, spoken and lobbied on behalf of hunters, shooters, and firearms owners for decades. He was appointed by Charlton Heston to serve on NRA's Membership, Legislative Policy, and Publications Policies Committees. Involved in nearly every congressional battle over gun rights since the early seventies, Keene has helped save hunter-friendly conservation programs in Africa and assisted the international hunting community when major airlines threatened to stop carrying hunting arms to Africa. Last Christmas, he was a featured hunter on the television show Dangerous Games, fulfilling a long-time goal of hunting a cape buffalo.

Keene is recognized as one of the chief spokesmen for conservative principles and politics on television and radio, and is widely quoted. He has written for The Boston Globe and has been a weekly columnist for The Hill, a newspaper covering Congress, since its inception. His opinion pieces regularly appear in publications such as The Washington Times, Townhall, the American Spectator, and Human Events.

Keene is recognized as one of the chief spokesmen for conservative principles and politics on television and radio, and is widely quoted. He has written weekly columns for The Boston Globe and The Hill, a newspaper covering Congress. His opinion pieces regularly appear in publications such as The Washington Times, Townhall, the American Spectator, and Human Events.

With offices in the Sacramento Area (Roseville) and Washington, DC, NTLC works with the White House, Members of Congress, legislators in states across the Nation and grassroots organizations to limit state and federal spending through legal restrictions and constitutional change. Uhler has been at the forefront of the national movements for a Tax Limitation/Balanced Budget Amendment to the United States Constitution and for term limits.

In 1968, then-Governor Ronald Reagan selected Uhler to serve on the California Law Revision Commission. In 1970, Reagan designated Uhler as the Governor's State Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity. Subsequently, Uhler served in Reagan's cabinet as Assistant Secretary of the Health & Welfare Agency. In 1972, Governor Reagan asked Uhler to organize and serve as Chairman of the Governor's Tax Reduction Task Force. With the assistance of a nationwide panel of advisors (including Nobel Laureates Milton Friedman and James Buchanan), the task force developed California's landmark Revenue Control and Limitation Act, which became a model for tax-expenditure limitation measures in many states.

In 1990, Uhler was co-author of Proposition 140, California's pioneering state term limit initiative. Under Uhler's leadership, NTLC has forged coalitions, including "Americans for Responsible Privatization," the "Council for Retirement Security" and more recently the "Tax Cut Working Group" in Washington, which Uhler chairs with Jim Martin (60 Plus Association) and Dan Mitchell (Heritage Foundation). In 1996, Uhler participated in a symposium at the Vatican on "The Family and the Economy in the Future of Society" to explore private alternatives to welfare states worldwide.

Uhler has written numerous articles and opinion pieces on taxes and spending. He is the author of the book, Setting Limits: Constitutional Control of Government, with foreword by Milton Friedman. Uhler speaks internationally on fiscal issues and has appeared on numerous national, regional and local television and radio programs and has been widely quoted in the print media.

Concurrently with his fiscal policy work, Uhler has been active in land development in northern California, as a general partner in a 200+ lot custom home subdivision and other residential and commercial properties, as well as a partner in a production home subdivision of over 400 homes.

Uhler is a native Californian, a graduate of Yale University and the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a member of the California Bar and serves Of Counsel with the Newport Beach law firm of Davis, Punelli & Keathley. He and his wife, Cynthia, have four grown sons and reside in the Sacramento area.