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Federal PACs are limited in the amount of money that they can contribute to other organizations:
  • at most $5,000 per candidate per election. Elections such as primaries, general elections and special elections are counted separately.

  • at most $15,000 per political party per year.

  • at most $5,000 per PAC per year.


However, PACs are not limited to advertising spent on the support of their own issues.


CATEGORIZATION OF PACS


# Republican/Conservative - organized to elect conservative/Republican candidates; examples are GOPAC and many others
# Democratic/Liberal - see above; examples are many PACs affiliated with Democratic or liberal groups
# Federal Leadership - PACs maintained by members of Congress in order to gain influence with fellow members. Also used by presidential candidates to fund travel before while not officially a candidate.
# Foreign & Defense Policy
# Pro-Israel - ex.
# Women's Issues - ex.
# Human Rights - ex.
# Misc Issues - ex.
# Environment - ex.
# Gun Control - ex.
# Gun Rights - ex.
# Abortion Policy/Pro-Life - ex.
# Abortion Policy/Pro-Choice - ex.

  • PoliticalMoneyLine uses the following categories for PACs (The latest totals are available here ):

    • # Agriculture

# Real Estate/Construction
# Communication, Technology
# Defense
# Energy, Natural Resources
# Finance, Insurance
# Business - Retail, Services
# Health Care
# Law
# Organized Labor
# Manufacturing
# Public Employees
# City/County
# Transportation
# Foreign Countries
# Miscellaneous
# Undetermined


2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

In the 2004 elections, the top 10 PACs by money spent by themselves, their affiliates and subsidaries were:

# EMILY's List $22,767,521
# Service Employees International Union $12,899,352
# American Federation Of Teachers $12,789,296
# American Medical Association $11,901,542
# National Rifle Association $11,173,358
# Teamsters Union $11,128,729
# International Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers $10,819,724
# National Education Association $10,521,538
# American Federation Of State, County And Municipal Employees $9,882,022
# Laborers' International Union Of North America $9,523,837


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