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Independent expenditure-only political action committees, better known as super PACs, are a type of political action committee (PAC) in the United States.Unlike traditional PACs, super PACs are legally allowed to fundraise unlimited amounts of money from individuals or organisations for the purpose of campaign advertising; however, they are not permitted to either coordinate with or contribute ...
OpenSecrets is a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that tracks and publishes data on campaign finance and lobbying, including a revolving door database which documents the individuals who have worked in both the public sector and lobbying firms and may have conflicts of interest.
American Academy of Family Physicians PAC (FamMedPAC) – Washington, D.C. American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons PAC (The Orthopaedic PAC) – Washington, D.C. American College of Pathology PAC (Path-PAC) – Milwaukee, WI; American College of Radiology PAC (RadPAC) – Reston, VA; American Dental Association PAC (ADPAC) – Washington, D.C.
In the United States, a political action committee (PAC) is a tax-exempt 527 organization that pools campaign contributions from members and donates those funds to campaigns for or against candidates, ballot initiatives, or legislation. [1] [2] The legal term PAC was created in pursuit of campaign finance reform in the United States.
OpenSecrets: OpenSecrets; MapLight. MapLight: State: OpenSecrets maintains a publicly accessible database for campaign finance information for state-level races in all 50 states dating back to 1989. [135] MapLight has state-level data for Wisconsin and California. In Pennsylvania the Department of State maintains a database searchable by the ...
Martin was executive director of the Missouri Club for Growth, a PAC to support certain candidates financially, and president of the Missouri Roundtable for Life, a pro-life, non-profit group. [34] He also founded Term Limits for Missouri in 2010, [35] which works to pass laws for term limits on all statewide elective positions in the state.
In 2018, over 95% of super PAC money came from the top 1% of donors. [ 104 ] Citizens United has often been credited for the creation of super PACs – political action committees that make no direct financial contributions to candidates or parties but instead spend money on advertising, and can in turn accept unlimited contributions from ...