Meeting Exhibitors
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The Alliance of
Health Care Sharing Ministries serves the common interests
of faith-based ministries which facilitate the sharing of health care
needs (financial, emotional, and spiritual) by individuals and families.
The Alliance is committed to advocacy in
the public policy arena on issues of importance to health care sharing
ministries.
Booth Number: 408
Alliance of Health Care Sharing
Ministries
PO Box 389
Washington, IL 61571-0389
888-726-4276
The Alliance for School Choice
is the nation’s vanguard organization for promoting, implementing,
and enhancing K-12 educational choice. In collaboration with a host of
national and state allies, we create opportunities for systemic and
sustainable educational reform that puts parents in charge.
Booth Number: 508
1660 L Street, N.W.,
Suite 1000
Washington,
D.C. 20036
Phone: 202-280-1990
The American Academy of
Ophthalmology (AAO) is world’s largest association of
eye physicians and surgeons – Eye M.D.s – with more than
27,000 members worldwide. Eye health care is provided by the three
“O” – opticians, optometrists and ophthalmologists.
It is the ophthalmologist, or Eye M.D., who can treat it all: eye
diseases and injuries, and perform eye surgery. To find an Eye M.D. in
your area, visit the Academy’s Web site at
Booth Number: 209
American Academy of Ophthalmology
P.O. Box
7424
San Francisco,
CA 94120-7424
Phone: 415-561-8500
Fax: 415-561-8533
The American Clean Skies
Foundation is helping our nation move towards a positive
energy and environmental future by providing facts on clean, abundant,
affordable American natural gas, renewables like wind and solar, and
energy efficiency. ACSF is elevating the debate to help
ensure a clean, secure energy future for America.
Booth Number: 311
Jim Martin
Vice President, Programs & Planning
American Clean Skies Foundation
750 1st Street, NE,
Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20002
Phone: 202-682-6294
Fax: 202-682-3050
www.cleanskies.org
www.cleanskies.tv
The American Massage
Therapy Association® represents more than 58,000
massage therapists in 27 countries. AMTA works to establish massage
therapy as integral to the maintenance of good health and complementary
to other therapeutic processes; to advance the profession through ethics
and standards, certification, school accreditation, continuing
education, professional publications, legislative efforts, public
education, and fostering the development of members.
Booth Number: 221
American Massage Therapy Association
500 Davis Street, Suite
900
Evanston,
IL 60201-4695
Phone: 877-905-2700
Founded in 1898, the American
Optometric Association is a federation of state, student
and armed forces optometric associations and is the premier authority in
the optometric profession. With more than 35,000 members in 6,500
U.S. communities, the AOA
leads the way in its mission of improving the quality and availability
of eye and vision care everywhere.
Booth Number: 405
Sherry L. Cooper, Associate Director, State Government Relations
American Optometric Association
243 N. Lindbergh
Blvd., Floor 1
St Louis,
MO 6341
Phone: 800.365.2219, Ext. 4266
SLCooper@AOA.org
The American Petroleum
Institute (API) is the only national trade association that
represents all aspects of America’s oil and
natural gas industry. Our 400 corporate members, from the largest major
oil company to the smallest of independents, come from all segments of
the industry. They are producers, refiners, suppliers, pipeline
operators and marine transporters, as well as service and supply
companies that support all segments of the industry.
Booth Number: 610
API
1220 L Street,
N.W.
Washington,
D.C. 20005
Founded by Newt Gingrich, American
Solutions for Winning the Future is a tri-partisan
organization designed to rise above gridlocked partisanship to provide
real solutions to America’s challenges
and to move government into the 21st Century
Booth Number:317
American Solutions for Winning the Future
1425 K Street, NW Suite 750
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: (202) 355-9470
Fax: (202) 355-9471
Americans for Tax
Reform (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 to oppose
al tax increases
Booth Number: 302
Nathan D. Pick
State Affairs Manager
Americans for Tax Reform
1920 L Street NW, Suite
200
Washington,
D.C. 20036
202.785.0266 Office
Americans United for
Life (AUL) is a non-profit, public-interest bioethics law
firm that defends human life through vigorous legislative, judicial, and
educational efforts, state by state. Founded in 1971, AUL’s
vision is a nation in which everyone is welcomed in life and protected
in law.
Booth Number: 212
Americans United for Life
310 S. Peoria
St., Suite 500
Chicago,
IL 60607
Phone: 313.492.7234
The Atlantic
Bridge is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded by
Dr. Liam Fox MP, current British Conservative Shadow Secretary for
Defense. The Atlantic
Bridge seeks to nurture,
strengthen and promote the special partnership that exists between the
UK and U.S. by reinvigorating the
network of conservative links that underpinned the Thatcher-Reagan
relationship of the 1980’s.
Booth Number: 318
Kara Watt – Director of Operations
The Atlantic Bridge
Room 341, Portcullis House
The House of Commons
Westminster, London
SW1A 0AA
Mobile Phone: (0)75 2590 1643
Business Phone: (0)20 7219 2617
E-mail: kara.watt@theatlanticbridge.com
BP is one of the
world’s largest energy companies, providing fuel for
transportation, energy for heat and light, retail services and
petrochemicals products for everyday items. BP employs nearly 100,000
people and operates in more than 100 countries worldwide. In the
United
States, BP’s family includes
Amoco, ARCO, and Castrol.
Booth Number: 303, 305
Gary Stewart
BP America
4101 Winfield
Road
Warrenville,
IL 60555
Phone: 630 821 3204
Fax: 630 821 3213
E-mail: gary.stewart@ bp.com
Capitol Ministries
is a national Christian organization committed to making disciples of
Jesus Christ among the political leadership of America’s 50 State
Capitols. Full-time ministries have been established in Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho,
Illinois, Kansas, Maryland,
Nebraska, Nevada, North
Carolina, Pennsylvania,
South Carolina, Texas, Virginia,
West Virginia, and Wyoming.
Booth Number: 213
Capitol Ministries
1121 L
Street, Suite B-8
Sacramento,
CA 95821
Phone: 916.446.1112
Fax: 916.446.1113
www.capmin.org
Ralph Drollinger, President
The CATO
Institute is America’s leading
free-market institute, dedicated to expanding the public policy debate
to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited
government, individual liberty, free markets and peace. It strives to
achieve greater public involvement in questions of policy and the proper
role of government, through publishing books, policy reports, and
periodicals.
Booth Number: 208
Nicole Kurokawa, Manager of External Relations
Cato Institute
Phone: 202.789.5293
The Center for Education
Reform (CER) drives the creation of better educational
opportunities for children by leading parents, policymakers and the
media in advocating for school choice, advancing the charter school
movement, and challenging the education establishment. CER is a public,
non-profit corporation organized in the District of Columbia in 1993.
Booth Number: 315
910 Seventeenth Street,
N.W., Suite 1120
Washington,
DC 20006
Phone: 800-521-2118 or 301-986-8088
Fax: 301-986-1826
The Center for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS) mission is to ensure effective,
up-to-date health care coverage and to promote quality care for
beneficiaries through a modernized health care system. This, in turn,
will lead to a highly motivated workforce, accurate payments, high-value
health care, informed consumers, and collaborative partnership.
Booth Number: 319
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
7500 Security
Boulevard
Baltimore,
MD 21244
www.cms.hhs.gov
The Center for
Competitive Politics is a non-profit organization that
works to protect the First Amendment political rights of speech,
assembly, and petition. We educate elected official, media, the public
and others about the dangers of so-called “campaign-finance
reform” and other restrictions on citizens’ right to support
the candidates and causes of their choice.
Booth Number: 412
Sean Parnell, President
Center for Competitive Politics
124 West Street S.,
Suite 201
Alexandria,
VA 22314
sparnell@campaignfreedom.org
Tel: (703) 894-6800
Fax: (703) 894-6811
Citizens
against Government Waste (CAWG) is a private, non-partisan,
non-profit organization representing more than one million members and
supporters nationwide. CAWG’s mission is to eliminate waste,
mismanagement, and inefficiency in the federal government. Founded in
1984 by the late industrialist J. Peter Grace and syndicated columnist
Jack Anderson, CAWG is the legacy of President Reagan’s Private
Sector Survey on Cost Control
Booth Number: 518
The Civil War Preservation
Trust is America's largest nonprofit
organization devoted to the preservation of our nation's endangered
Civil War battlefields.
Booth Number: 404
The Civil War Preservation Trust
1331 H Street N.W. Suite
1001
Washington,
D.C. 20005
202-367-1861
The Credit Union National
Association (CUNA) based in Washington, D.C.,
and Madison, Wisconsin, is the premier national trade
association serving America’s credit
unions. The trade group is governed by volunteer directors who are
elected by their credit union peers. CUNA provides many services to
credit unions, including representation, public relations, continuing
professional education, and business development.
Booth Number: 402
Chris Johnson, Vice-President, State Governmental Affairs
601 Pennsylvania Avenue
N.W.
South
Building,
Suite
600
Washington,
D.C. 20004
Phone: 202.824.6298
cjohnson@cuna.coop
The Family Research
Council (FRC) shapes public debate and formulates public
policy that values human life and upholds the institutions of marriage
and the family. We promote the Judeo-Christian worldview as the basis
for a just, free, and stable society.
Booth Number: 312
Family Research Council
801 G Street,
N.W.
Washington,
D.C. 20001
The Friedman
Foundation for Educational Choice Friedman Foundation for
Educational Choice is a non-profit organization established in 1996.
Friedman believes the best way to improve the quality of elementary and
secondary education is to give all parents the freedom to choose the
schools that work best for their children. Their mission is
“promoting school choice to improve, through competition, the
quality of K-12 education for all”.
Booth Number: 406
The Friedman Foundation Educational Choice
One American Square,
Suite 2420
Indianapolis,
Indiana 46282
Phone: 317-681-0745
Fax: 317-681-0945
The Heartland
Institute is a national nonprofit research and education
organization; it is not affiliated with any political party, business,
or foundation. Heartland’s mission is to discover, develop, and
promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems. Such
solutions include parental choice in education, choice and personal
responsibility in health care, market-based approaches to environmental
protection, privatization of public services, and deregulation in areas
where property rights and markets do a better hob than government
bureaucracies.
Booth Number: 505
The Heartland Institute
19 South LaSalle #903
Chicago,
IL 60603
Phone: 312.377.4000
Fax: 312.377.5000
www.heartland.org
think@heartland.org
Founded in 1973, The Heritage Foundation
is a research and educational institute-a think tank- whose 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.
Booth Number: 214
The Heritage Foundation
214 Massachusetts Ave.,
N.E.
Washington
D.C. 20002-4999
Phone: 202.546.4400
The Institute for
Justice is a public interest law firm engaged in
cutting-edge constitutional litigation designed to vindicate individual
rights under the federal and state constitutions. IJ is based in
Arlington, VA and has offices in Seattle, Austin,
Minneapolis and Tempe.
Booth Number: 410
Institute for Justice
901 N. Glebe Road, Suite
900
Arlington,
VA 22203
Phone: 703-682-9320
Fax: 703-682-9321
The Institute for Policy
Innovation is a national, independent, non-profit public
policy organization based in Dallas, Texas. IPI researches, develops and
promotes innovative solutions to today's public policy issues from a
consistent philosophical viewpoint of free markets and limited
government.
Booth Number: 307
Institute for Policy Innovation
1660 S. Stermmons Freeway
Suite
475
Lewisville,
TX 75067
Phone: 972.874.5139
Fax: 972.874.5144
The Intercollegiate Studies
Institute (ISI) is a non-profit, non-partisan, educational
organization. Founded in 1963, ISI seeks to enhance the rising
generation's knowledge of our nation's founding principles—
limited government, individual liberty, personal responsibility, the
rule of law, market economy, and moral norms—through prudent
reform of American higher education.
Booth Number: 309
3901 Centerville
Road
P.O. box
4431
Wilmington,
DE 19807
Phone: (800)526-7022 or (302) 652-4600
Fax: (302)652-1760
The International
Bottled Water Association (IBWA) is the premier trade
association for the bottled water industry, representing bottled water
bottlers, distributors and suppliers throughout the U.S. The bottled water
industry plays a crucial role in protecting our planet through ground
water management efforts and the responsible use of natural
resources. To learn more, visit
BottledWater.org.
Booth Number: 314
Phone: 703-683-5213
