The RLC is a nationwide organization which claims members in every state. Membership currently includes eight members of the US House of Representatives: John Culberson, Mark Foley, J.D. Hayworth, Sam Johnson, Ron Paul, John Shadegg, Nick Smith, and Todd Tiahrt.

The RLC supports free enterprise, personal freedom, and protecting individual rights, and endorses the following policies:

Lower and fewer taxes 
The right to privacy 
The right to keep and bear arms 
Balanced budgets through spending cuts 
Educational choice 
Freedom of speech 
Protection of property rights 
Market-based health care 
Alternatives to the drug war 
All-volunteer armed forces 
Term Limits 
Sound monetary policies 
Deregulation 
Phase-out of foreign aid 
Ending federal welfare 
Private options to Social Security 
Free trade Privatization of government functions