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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.
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 ...
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.
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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 ...
In January 2015, a report by the Sunlight Foundation and OpenSecrets found that of 104 former congressional members and staffers whose "cooling off" period ended during the first session of the 114th Congress which opened January 6, 2015, 29 were already in government relations, "public affairs," or serve as counsel at a firm that lobbies, and ...
According to OpenSecrets, in 2018 the Sixteen Thirty Fund had "thirteen multi-million dollar secret donors." [6] One donor gave $51.7 million to the group in 2018, while another donor gave $26.7 million and a third gave $10 million. The group is not required by law to reveal its donors and it has not disclosed who its funders are.