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In the United States, a political action committee, or PAC, is the name commonly given to a private group organized to elect or defeat government officials in order to promote legislation, often supporting the group's special interests. PACs are limited in the amount of money that they can spend to the following per year:
- 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.
- at most $5,000 per PAC. PACs are allowed to give to other PACs.
However, PACs are not limited to advertising spent on the support of their own issues.
In the 2002 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
1 Related topics
- Politics of the United States
- Soft money
- GOPAC - a GOP PAC specializing in training political candidates
- GAMPAC - the Godless Americans PAC
- 527 groupA 527 group named after a section of the United States tax code, is a tax-exempt organization that is created primarily to influence the nomination, election, appointment or defeat of candidates for public office. Although political action committees are
2 External links
Political advocacy groups in the U.S.
