List of political action committees

This list of political action committees is organized by the nature of each particular U.S. PAC's work.

Animals

• Humane USA PAC - Washington DC

Banking, credit, finance, insurance

Banks

• American Bankers Association PAC - Washington, DC
• Bank of America Federal PAC - Washington, DC
• Citigroup, Inc. PAC - Washington, DC
• HSBC North America Political Action Committee (H-PAC) - Mettawa, IL
• Independent Community Bankers of America PAC - Washington, DC

Credit

• American Express PAC (AXP PAC) - Washington, DC
• American Financial Services Association PAC (AFSA PAC) - Washington, DC
• Capital One Associates PAC - McLean, VA
• Cash America International PAC - Fort Worth, TX
• MasterCard Inc. Employees PAC - Purchase, NY
• Sallie Mae PAC - Reston, VA

Finance

• Credit Suisse Securities PAC - Washington, DC
• Deutsche Bank Americas Corp / Taunus Corporation PAC – Washington, DC
• Goldman Sachs PAC - Washington, DC
• Investment Company Institute PAC (ICI PAC) - Washington, DC
• Morgan Stanley PAC - Washington, DC
• National Venture Capital Association PAC (VENTUREPAC) - Arlington, VA
• Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association PAC (SIFMA PAC) - Washington, DC
• UBS Americas Fund for Better Government - Stamford, CT

Insurance

• AFLAC PAC - Columbus, Ga
• America’s Health Insurance Plans PAC (AHIP PAC) - Washington, DC
• Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (INSUR PAC)- Washington, DC
• Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance PAC - Springfield, Ma
• MetLife Employee Political Participation Fund - New York, NY
• National Association of Health Underwriters PAC (HUPAC) - Arlington, Va
• National Association of Insurance & Financial Advisors PAC (NAIFA PAC) - Falls Church, Va
• New York Life Insurance Company PAC - New York, NY
• USAA Employees PAC - San Antonio, Tx

Education

• WEA-PAC (Washington Education Association)
• Student Debt Reform PAC
• COPE American Federation of Teachers

Energy

In the 2010 election cycle energy related industries spent more than $9 million through PACs. The largest amount was from electric utilities (which are regulated at the federal and state levels), which spent more than $5 million through various industry committees. Oil and gas industries and refiners spent more than $2.7 million through PACs.

Alternative energy

• American Wind Energy Association - Washington, DC
• Apollo PAC - Washington, DC
• Caithness Equities PAC - New York, NY
• Growth Energy PAC - Ethanol - Washington, DC
• POET Pac - Ethanol - Sioux Falls, SD
• Solar Energy Industries Association PAC - Washington, DC

Coal

• Arch Coal Political Action Committee (ARCHPAC) - St. Louis, MO.
• COALPAC, A Political Action Committee of the National Mining Association - Washington, DC
• Foundation Coal Corporation Political Action Committee - Linthicum Heights, MD
• Murray Energy PAC - Pepper Pike, OH
• Peabody Energy Corp. PAC (Peabody PAC) - St. Louis, MO

Electric

• American Committee for Rural Electrification (ACRE) National Rural Electric Cooperative - Arlington, VA
• The American Electric Power Committee for Responsible Government - Columbus, OH
• Dominion Resources PAC - Richmond, VA
• Duke Energy PAC - Richmond, VA
• Exelon PAC - Chicago, IL
• Florida Power & Light Employees PAC (FPL PAC) - Juno Beach, FL

Oil and gas

• American Gas Association PAC - Washington, DC
• Chevron Corporation Employees PAC - San Ramon, CA
• ConocoPhillips Spirit PAC - Bartlesville, OK
• ExxonMobil PAC - Indianapolis, IN
• Independent Petroleum Association of America Wildcatters Fund (IPAA Wildcatters Fund) - Washington, DC
• KochPAC - Washington, DC
• Valero Energy PAC - San Antonio, TX
• The Williams Companies PAC - Washington, DC

Environment

• League of Conservation Voters Action Fund - Washington, DC
• Sierra Club Political Committee - San Francisco, CA

Ethnic

• Asian Pacific Americans for Progress - Los Angeles, CA
• Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Leadership PAC, Washington, DC
• Committee for Hispanic Causes - Building Our Leadership's Diversity (CHC Bold PAC) - Washington, DC
• Council on American Islamic Relations, California PAC - Los Angeles, CA
• US-Cuba Democracy PAC - anti-Castro group - Hialeah, FL
• U.S. India PAC - Chantilly, VA
• Hispanic Unity USA - Burbank, CA
• National Action Committee (NACPAC) - Pro-Israel - Hollywood Florida
• Indian Americans for Freedom - Carol Stream, IL
• United Puerto Rican Political Action Committee - Lawrence, MA
• Pakistani American Political Action Committee - Laurel, MD

General ideology

Progressive

• ActBlue—Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC - Somerville, MA
• Blue America PAC - Washington, D.C.
• Butler County Progressive PAC - Oxford, OH
• Central Valley Progressive PAC - Fresno, CA
• Progressive Alliance PAC - Cook County, IL
• Progressive Change Campaign Committee - Washington, D.C.
• Progressives United - Middleton, WI
• RAT-PAC (The Resistance Arts Trust Political Action Committee) - Washington, DC
• Riverside County Progressive PAC - Riverside County, CA
• Texas Federal Blue Seed PAC - Arlington,Texas

Conservative

• Arkansas Young Guns PAC - Little Rock, AR
• Campaign for Working Families - Arlington, VA
• Citizens United Political Victory Fund - Washington, DC
• Conservative Victory Fund - Washington, DC
• Eagle Forum - Alton, IL
• Maggie's List - Florida
• Move America Forward
• National Conservative Campaign Fund - Washington, DC
• National Conservative Political Action Committee
• Ready For Right- Washington, DC
• Senate Conservatives Fund
• TitoPac - Tito the Builder
• SecurityIsStrength - Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

Liberal

• Asian American Action Fund - Washington, DC
• Democracy for America - Burlington, VT
• MoveOn.org PAC - Berkeley CA
• National Committee for an Effective Congress - Washington, DC

Republican

• Republican Main Street Partnership PAC - Washington, DC
• Restore Our Future
• Tuesday Group PAC - Washington, DC

Democratic

• American Bridge 21st Century - Washington, DC
• Correct the Record - Washington, DC
• ReadyPAC - Washington, DC
• Democratic Advancement PAC (DAPAC) - Seattle, WA
• Democrats for Education Reform - New York, NY
• Wheeling West Virginia Democratic Socialist Union - Wheeling, WV

Other

• Liberty Now PAC - Aberdeen, WA
• Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow (The Colbert Super PAC) - Washington, DC
• Lyndon LaRouche PAC (LaRouchePAC) - Leesburg, VA
• Citizens for an Operational Government PAC (COGPAC) - Charleston, SC
• Liberty For All Political Action Committee - Austin, Texas
• United States India Political Action Committee - Washington, DC
• Our Principles PAC
• Americans Against Insecure Billionaires with Tiny Hands - Portland, OR

Gun rights

• Gun Owners of America Political Victory Fund (GOA-PVF) - Springfield, VA
• Minnesota Gun Owners Political Action Committee - Saint Paul, MN
• National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) - Arlington, VA

Health care

Hospitals, care facilities

• American Hospital Association PAC - Washington, DC
• American Healthcare Association PAC - Washington, DC
• American Seniors Housing PAC - Washington, DC
• Federation of American Hospitals PAC - Washington, DC

Pharmaceutical and biotech

• Abbott Laboratories Employees PAC - Abbott Park, IL
• AmGen, Inc. PAC - Washington, DC
• 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, DC
• National Community Pharmacists Association PAC - Alexandria, Va.
• Pfizer Inc. PAC (PfizerPAC) - New York, NY
• Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Better Government Committee (PhRMA) - Washington, DC

Providers

• American Academy of Dermatology PAC (SkinPAC) - Washington, DC
• American College of Pathology PAC (Path-PAC) - Milwaukee, WI
• American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons PAC (The Orthopaedic PAC) - Washington, DC
• American College of Radiology PAC (RadPAC) - Reston, VA
• American Dental Association PAC (ADPAC) - Washington, DC
• American Medical Association PAC (AmPAC) - Washington, DC
• American Naprapathic Association PAC (ANAPAC) - Chicago, IL
• American Optometric Association PAC (AOA PAC) - Alexandria, VA
• Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist PAC (CRNA-PAC) - Washington, DC
• American Society of Anesthesiologists PAC (ASAPAC) - Park Ridge, IL
• National Emergency Medicine PAC (NEMPAC) - Irving, TX
• American Physical Therapy Association PAC (PT-PAC) - Alexandria, VA
• American Academy of Family Physicians PAC(FamMedPAC) - Washington, DC
• American Academy of Audiology PAC (AAAPAC) - Washington, DC

Industry

Accounting

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants PAC (AICPA PAC) - Durham, NC
• Deloitte & Touche Federal PAC - Washington, DC
• Ernst & Young PAC - Washington, DC
• KPMG Partners/Principals & Employees PAC - Washington, DC
• PricewaterhouseCoopers PAC - Washington, DC

Aerospace

• BAE Systems USA PAC - Arlington, Va
• The Boeing Company PAC - Arlington, Va
• Lockheed Martin Employees PAC - Arlington, Va
• SpacePAC - Satellite Beach, FL. Founded by Bina and Martine Rothblatt creator of GeoStar and Sirius Radio ^[1]
• The United Technologies Company PAC - Washington, DC

Agribusiness

• American Crystal Sugar Company PAC - Moorhead, MN
• American Quarter Horse Association Q-PAC - Amarillo, TX
• American Veterinary Medical Association PAC - Washington, DC
• California Dairies Federal Political Action Committee - Turlock, CA
• Dean Foods Company PAC - Dallas, TX
• Deere & Company PAC (John Deere PAC) - Moline, IL
• Farm Credit Council PAC - Washington, DC
• Monsanto Company Citizenship Fund PAC - St. Louis, MO
• National Cattlemen's Beef Association PAC (NCBA-PAC) - Centennial, CO
• National Chicken Council PAC - Washington, DC
• National Cotton Council Committee for the Advancement of Cotton - Cordova, TN
• National Pork Producers Council PAC (PORK PAC) - Des Moines, IA
• Syngenta Corporation Employee PAC (Syngenta PAC) - Washington, DC
• Tyson Foods PAC (TYPAC) - Springdale, AR
• United Egg Producers PAC (Egg PAC) - Alpharetta, GA

Alcoholic beverages

• Anheuser-Busch Companies PAC - St. Louis, MO
• Brown-Forman Corporation Non Partisan Committee on Responsible Government - Louisville, KY
• Distilled Spirits Council of the United States PAC (DISCUS PAC) - Washington, DC
• National Beer Wholesalers Association PAC (NBWA PAC) - Alexandria, VA
• Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America PAC (WSWA-PAC) - Washington, DC

Entertainment

• Clear Channel Communications PAC - San Antonio, Tx
• Comcast Corporation PAC - Philadelphia, Pa
• DirectTV Group Fund (DIRECTTV PAC) - Washington, DC
• National Association of Broadcasters PAC (NABPAC) - Washington, DC
• National Cable & Telecommunications Association PAC (NCTA PAC) - Washington, DC
• Time Warner Cable PAC - Washington, DC
• Walt Disney Productions Employees PAC - Washington, DC

Food and beverage

• American Meat Institute PAC - Washington, DC
• American Beverage Association PAC - Washington, DC
• Coca-Cola Company Non-Partisan Committee on Good Government - Atlanta, GA
• ConAgra Foods Good Government Committee - Omaha NE
• Flowers Foods Industries PAC - Thomasville, GA
• Food Marketing Institute PAC (FOODPAC) (FOODPACE) - Arlington, VA
• General Mills PAC - Minneapolis, MN
• Kraft Foods PAC (KRAFTPAC) - Washington, DC
• McDonald's Corporation PAC - Oak Brook, IL
• National Restaurant Association PAC (NRA-PAC) - Washington, DC
• OSI Restaurant Partners PAC - Tampa, FL
• PepsiCo Concerned Citizens Fund - Purchase, NY
• Taco Political Action Committee (TACO PAC) - Shawnee Mission, KS
• Wendy's/Arby's Group PAC - Dublin, OH

Information technology

• FLIXPAC (Netflix) - Los Gatos, CA
• Microsoft MSPAC - Redmond, WA

Legal

• American Association for Justice - Washington, DC
• DLA Piper PAC - Washington, DC
• Greenberg Traurig PAC - Miami, FL
• Holland & Knight Committee for Effective Government - Washington, DC
• K&L Gates PAC - Washington, DC
• Patton Boggs PAC - Washington, DC
• Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal PAC (Sonnenschein PAC) - Washington, DC

Manufacturing

• 3M Company PAC - St. Paul, Mn
• General Electric PAC (GEPAC) - Washington, DC
• Honeywell International PAC - Washington, DC
• Procter & Gamble Good Government Committee (P&G PAC) - Cincinnati, Oh
• The Shaw Group PAC - Washington, DC

Marijuana

• Marijuana Policy Project - Washington, DC
• National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) - Washington, DC
• Medicinal Cannabis Super PAC - Oakland, CA

Natural resources

• Weyerhaeuser Company PAC - Detroit, MI
• MINEPAC, A Political Action Committee of the National Mining Association - Washington, DC

Real estate

• American Resort Development Association/Resort Owners Coalition (ARDA-ROC PAC) - Washington, DC
• Build Political Action Committee of the National Association of Home Builders (BUILD-PAC) - Washington, DC
• National Apartment Association PAC (NAAPAC) - Arlington, VA
• National Association of Realtors PAC - Chicago, Il
• National Multi Housing Council PAC (NMHC PAC) - Washington, DC
• Real Estate Roundtable PAC (REALPAC) - Washington, DC

Retailers

• CVS Caremark Employees PAC - Washington, DC
• The Home Depot PAC - Washington, DC
• International Council of Shopping Centers PAC (ICSC PAC) - Washington, DC
• National Association of Chain Drug Stores PAC - Alexandria, VA
• National Association for Convenience Stores PAC (NACSPAC) - Washington, DC
• Target Citizens Political Forum - Minneapolis, MN
• Wal-Mart Stores PAC For Responsible Government - Washington, DC

Tobacco

• Altria PAC (ALTRIAPAC) - Washington, DC
• Lorillard Tobacco Company Public Affairs Committee - Greensboro, NC
• RJ Reynolds PAC - Winston-Salem, NC 27102
• US Smokeless Tobacco Executives Administrators and Managers PAC - Washington, DC

Labor

• Carpenters Legislative Improvement Committee - Washington, DC
• IBEW PAC - Washington, DC
• International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Political Education Committee - Washington, DC
• Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) PAC - Washington, DC
• Non-Partisan Political League of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers - Upper Marlboro, MD
• Service Employees International Union Committee on Political Education (SEIU COPE) - Washington, DC
• Transport Workers Union Political Contributions Committee - New York, NY
• Transportation Communications International Union Responsible Citizens Political League - Rockville, Maryland

Leadership

House leaders

• Speaker John Boehner - The Freedom Project - Washington, DC
• Majority Leader Eric Cantor - Every Republican is Crucial PAC (ERIC PAC) - Richmond, VA
• Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi - PAC to the Future - Washington, DC
• Minority Whip Steny Hoyer - AmeriPac - Washington, DC
• Assistant Minority Leader James Clyburn - BridgePAC - Washington, DC

House members

• Mo Brooks - Make Opportunity (MO) PAC
• John Conyers - America Forward PAC - Washington, DC
• Joseph Crowley - Jobs, Opportunity & Education PAC (JoePAC) - Elmhurst, NY
• John Dingell - Wolverine PAC - Washington, DC
• Bob Filner - San Diego PAC - San Diego, Ca
• Darrell Issa - Invest in a Safe & Secure America PAC (IssaPAC) - Vista, CA
• Kevin McCarthy - Majority Committee PAC (MC PAC) - Bakersfield, CA
• Frank Pallone - SHORE PAC - Long Branch, NJ
• Ron Paul - Liberty PAC - Lake Jackson, Tx
• Nick Rahall - 3T PAC - Beckley, WV
• Charles Rangel - National Leadership PAC - New York, NY
• Pete Sessions - People for Enterprise, Trade and Economic Growth - Alexandria, VA
• Bennie G. Thompson - Secure PAC - Bolton, MS
• Chris Van Hollen - Victory Now PAC - Kensington, MD
• Nydia M. Velazquez - Progress PAC - Gaithersburg, Md
• Debbie Wasserman Schultz - Democrats Win Seats - Weston, FL
• Henry Waxman - LA Pac - Los Angeles, Ca

Senate leaders

• Majority Leader Harry Reid - Searchlight Leadership Fund - Washington, DC
• Majority Whip Dick Durbin - Prairie PAC - Springfield, IL
• Minority Leader Mitch McConnell - Bluegrass Committee -Washington, DC
• Minority Whip John Kyl - Senate Majority Fund - Washington, DC
• John Cornyn Chair, National Republican Senatorial Committee - Alamo PAC - Austin, TX
• Former Senator Jim DeMint, Senate Conservatives Fund - Alexandria, VA

Senators

• Max Baucus - Glacier PAC - Missoula, MT
• Roy Blunt - Rely on Your Beliefs Fund - Tacoma, WA
• Barbara Boxer - PAC for a Change - Los Angeles, CA
• Sherrod Brown - America Works - Washington, DC
• Kent Conrad - DAKPAC - Washington, DC
• Dianne Feinstein - Fund for the Majority - Burbank, CA
• Chuck Grassley - Hawkeye PAC - Des moines, IA
• Tom Harkin - To Organize a Majority PAC (TomPAC) - Des Moines, IA
• Daniel Inouye - DANPAC - Honolulu, HI
• John Kerry - Campaign for Our Country - Washington, DC
• Amy Klobuchar - Follow the North Star Fund - Minneapolis, MN
• Mary Landrieu - Jazz PAC - Washington, DC
• Patrick Leahy - Green Mountain PAC - Montpelier, VT
• Joe Lieberman - Reuniting Our Country - Washington, DC
• Robert Menendez - New Millennium PAC - Union City, NJ
• John McCain - Country First PAC - Alexandria, VA
• Rand Paul - Human Action
• Mark Pryor - Priority PAC - Little Rock, AR
• Charles Schumer - Impact - New York, NY
• John Thune - Heartland Values PAC - Sioux Falls, SD
• Mark R. Warner - Forward Together PAC - Alexandria, VA

State and local officials

• Mitch Daniels - Aiming Higher PAC
• Rahm Emanuel - Our Common Values PAC - Chicago, IL

Former elected and public officials

• Robert F. Benett - SNOWPAC - Salt Lake City, UT
• Hillary Clinton - HILLPAC - Washington, DC
• Chris Dodd - Citizens for Hope, Responsibility, Independence & Service (Chris PAC) - Washington, DC
• Byron Dorgan - Great Plains Leadership Fund - Washington, DC
• Newt Gingrich - American Solutions PAC - Alexandria, VA
• Mike Huckabee - Huck PAC - Little Rock, AR
• Jon Huntsman - HorizonPac/H-PAC - Washington, DC
• Blanche Lincoln - Leadership in the New Century (LINC PAC) - Little Rock, AR
• David R. Obey - Committee for a Progressive Congress - Washington, DC
• Sarah Palin - SarahPAC - Arlington, VA
• Tim Pawlenty - Freedom First - St. Paul, MN
• Mitt Romney - Free & Strong America PAC - Lexington, MA
• Rick Santorum - America's Foundation PAC - Downingtown, PA
• Ike Skelton The Show-Me Fund - Blue Bell, PA
• John M. Spratt, Jr. - Palmetto PAC - Bethesda, MD

Executive officials

• Barack Obama - Priorities USA - San Diego, CA

Religious

• Freethought Equality Fund PAC
• Godless Americans PAC (GAMPAC) - see American Atheists
• 613PAC - Orthodox Jewish Political Action Committee
• Republican Jewish Coalition - Washington, DC

Social issues

Children's and youth issues

• KIDS Pac - Belmont, Ma
• Children's Campaign Fund - Seattle, WA
• Take A Stand PAC - Reinholds, PA
• Teens for Teens PAC - Miami Beach, FL
• Youth Action PAC

LGBT issues

• Equality PAC
• Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund - Washington, D.C.
• Human Rights Campaign PAC - Washington, D.C.
• LPAC
• Pride PAC – San Francisco, CA

Pro-choice

• NARAL Pro-Choice America PAC - Washington, DC
• The Wish List - Alexandria, VA
• EMILY's List - Washington, DC
• Planned Parenthood Action Fund - New York, NY

Pro-life

• Life & Liberty PAC - Reston, VA
• National Pro-Life Alliance PAC - Annandale, VA
• Susan B. Anthony List - Arlington, V

Transportation

Air

• Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association PAC - Frederick, MD
• American Airlines PAC - Washington, DC
• Continental Airlines Employee Fund for a Better America - Houston, TX
• Delta Air Lines PAC - Washington, DC
• Federal Express PAC (FEDEXPAC) - Memphis, TN
• United Parcel Service PAC (UPSPAC) - Atlanta, GA

Freight rail

• Association of American Railroads PAC (RAILPAC) - Washington, DC
• American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association PAC (ASLRRA PAC) - Washington, DC
• Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation RailPac (BNSF RailPAC) - Fort Worth, Tx
• CSX Corporation Good Government Fund - Washington, DC
• Norfolk Southern Corporation Good Government Fund - Norfolk, VA
• Union Pacific Corporation Fund for a Better Government - Washington, DC

Road

• National Limousine Association PAC (NLA) - Marlton, NJ
• Taxicab, Limousine & Paratransit Association PAC (TLPA) - Rockville, MD

Construction

• American Road and Transportation Builders Association PAC (ARTBA PAC) - Washington, DC

Foreign affairs

• J Street PAC
• NORPAC
• VoteVets.org - veterans group whose main goal is "to put Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans in Congress who are critical of the execution of the war in Iraq.

References

1. SpacePAC

External links

• Federal Elections Commission's PACs page
• OpenSecrets
• PoliticalMoneyLine