Our Work
America’s innovators support millions of jobs across the country. They benefit businesses and organizations of all sizes by bringing their products to a broad consumer base around the world.
Preserving an open and accessible internet is a critical component of conveying innovative ideas, building new organizations, inventing new goods and services, growing new businesses, reaching new customers, and developing new sectors.
See the American Edge Project’s economic work:
AI is Fueling Main Street Growth. Policymakers Should Keep Up, Senators Kent Conrad and Saxby Chambliss, May 12th, 2026
New Report Highlights AI’s Promise – and America’s Shrinking Lead, Asheesh Agarwal, April 30th, 2026
American Edge Project and TECNA Launch Interactive “50-State AI Scorecard”, AEP Press Release, January 8th, 2026
America Could Lose the AI Race Unless Congress Acts Now, Senators Saxby Chambliss and Kent Conrad, December 18th, 2025
Economic Advisory Board
Saxby Chambliss
Former U.S. Senate (R-GA)
Saxby Chambliss served in the US Senate for two terms and, before that, served four terms in the US House of Representatives.
During his tenure in the Senate, he served as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee; the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry; the Senate Rules Committee; and his leadership and experience on homeland security and intelligence matters earned him an appointment to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, where he served as vice chairman from 2011 to 2014, advocating for dramatically improved information sharing and human-intelligence-gathering capabilities.
His previous role as chairman of the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security made him one of the leading congressional experts on those issues.
Kent Conrad
Former U.S. Senate (D-ND)
Kent Conrad is a former United States Senator who represented North Dakota from 1992 to 2013. He served as Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee from 2001 to 2003, and again from 2007 to 2013. He served as Ranking Member of the Committee from 2003 to 2007.
In addition, he served as Chairman of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Taxation, IRS Oversight, and Long-Term Growth. He previously served as Tax Commissioner of North Dakota.