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Congressional Candidates who received campaign money from the NRA -- click on arrows to sort the columns -- Candidate State House (H) or Senate (S)
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Abbott Laboratories Employees PAC – Abbott Park, IL; AmGen, Inc. PAC – Washington, D.C. Eli Lilly and Company PAC – Indianapolis, IN; Genentech Inc Political Action Committee; GlaxoSmithKline PAC – Residential Triangle Park, NC; Johnson & Johnson PAC (JJPAC) – New Brunswick, NJ; MerckPAC – Washington, D.C. Pfizer Inc. PAC (PfizerPAC ...
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.
According to data from OpenSecrets, the top 100 individual super PAC donors in 2011–2012 made up just 3.7% of contributors, but accounted for more than 80% of the total money raised, [33] while less than 0.5% of the money given to "the most active super PACs" was donated by publicly traded corporations. [34]
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 ...
personal use is any use of funds in a campaign account of a candidate (or former candidate) to fulfill a commitment, obligation or expense of any person that would exist irrespective of the candidate's campaign or responsibilities as a federal officeholder. [134]