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Political Action Committees: Their Role in Financing Congressional Elections (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date July 11, 2003
Report Number 98-255
Authors Joseph E. Cantor, Government and Finance Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

Political action committees, or PACs, are legal entities through which interest groups raise and spend money in elections. They constitute one of four major sources of funds contributed to congressional campaigns, along with individual citizens, political parties, and candidates. While PACs proliferated and became an issue in the 1970s and 1980s, interest groups have long played a major role in funding American elections.