Editing AIPAC (section)

===Successes===
AIPAC has been compared to firearms, banking, defense, and energy lobbies as "long" being "a feature of politics in Washington."
Its promotional literature notes that the Leadership Reception during its annual Policy Conference "will be attended by more members of Congress than almost any other event, except for a joint session of Congress or a State of the Union address."<ref name=bruck-50>{{cite magazine|last1=Bruck|first1=Connie|title=Friends of Israel|magazine=The New Yorker|date=September 1, 2014|page=50|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/01/friends-israel|access-date=September 9, 2014}}</ref>
''[[The New York Times]]'' has described AIPAC as "a major force in shaping United States policy in the Middle East"<ref>{{cite news|last=Shipler|first=David K.|title=On Middle East Policy, A Major Influence|work=The New York Times|date=July 6, 1987|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40711FD39540C758CDDAE0894DF484D81}}</ref> that is able to push numerous bills through Congress. "Typically," these "pass by unanimous votes."<ref name=LANDLER>{{cite news|last1=Landler|first1=Mark|title=Potent Pro-Israel Group Finds Its Momentum Blunted|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/04/world/middleeast/potent-pro-israel-group-finds-its-momentum-blunted.html|access-date=September 12, 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 3, 2014}}</ref>

A [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] resolution condemning the [[United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict|UN Goldstone Report]] on human rights violations by Israel in Gaza, for example, passed 344–36 in 2009.<ref name="govtrack">{{cite web|url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2009-838|title=House Vote On Passage: H. Res. 867: Calling on the President and the Secretary of State to|date=November 3, 2009|work=GovTrack|access-date=November 4, 2009}}</ref><ref name=bruck-58>{{cite magazine|last1=Bruck|first1=Connie|title=Friends of Israel|magazine=The New Yorker|date=September 1, 2014|page=58|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/01/friends-israel|access-date=September 9, 2014}}</ref>

In 1997, ''[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]'' magazine named AIPAC the second-most powerful influence group in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kurtzman |first=D |date=November 11, 1998 |title=AIPAC listed 2nd most powerful group on Fortune list |url=http://www.jewishaz.com/jewishnews/971128/aipac.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010716113551/http://www.jewishaz.com/jewishnews/971128/aipac.shtml |archive-date=2001-07-16 |access-date=2023-11-04 |website=Jewish News of Greater Phoenix}}</ref>

AIPAC advises members of Congress about the issues that face today's Middle East, including the dangers of extremism and terrorism. It was an early supporter of the Counter-Terrorism Act of 1995, which resulted in increased FBI resources being committed to fight terrorism.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bruck |first1=Connie |title=Friends of Israel |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/01/friends-israel |access-date=November 4, 2018 |agency=The New Yorker |issue=September 1, 2014}}</ref>

AIPAC also lobbies for financial aid from the United States to Israel, helping to procure up to $3 billion in aid yearly, making Israel "the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II."<ref>Sharp, Jeremy M.: "U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel", Introduction, "CRS Report for Congress", Order Code RL33222</ref> According to the [[Congressional Research Service]] (CRS), these include providing aid "as all grant cash transfers, not designated for particular projects, and...transferred as a lump sum in the first month of the fiscal year, instead of in periodic increments. Israel is allowed to spend about one quarter of the military aid for the procurement in Israel of defense articles and services, including research and development, rather than in the United States."<ref>Migdalovitz, Carol: "Israel: Background and Relations with the United States", page 29. "CRS Report for Congress", Order Code RL33476</ref>