Senator John McCain

AIPAC Policy Conference June 2-4, 2008 Republican Candidate for President Senator John McCain addresses the conference. For more than half a century, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee has worked to help make Israel more secure by ensuring that American support remains strong. From a small pro-Israel public affairs boutique in the 1950s, AIPAC has grown into a 100,000-member national grassroots movement described by The New York Times as "the most important organization affecting America 's relationship with Israel. The following shared major addresses to the AIPAC Policy Conference, June 2 -- 4, 2008, at the Washington Convention Center. Headlining the conference will be ALL three remaining Presidential candidates, ALL four leaders of Congress -- Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH), AS WELL AS Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice AND Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert