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Essential Hill and Political Washington Web Sites

Essential PAC Web Sites

From the course materials distributed at our Starting and Building a PAC: PAC Workshop conference.

Capitol Learning Audio Courses
527 Overview and Update, Audio Course on CDPACS in a Nutshell Audio Course on CDHow to Organize a Capitol Hill Day Audio Course on CD

Types of Advocacy Groups - from OpenSecrets

PAC ESSENTIALS 

Federal Election Commission
  http://www.fec.gov/
  Official FEC website
- Quick Answers to PAC Questions
- Help with Reporting and Compliance


CQ MoneyLine
    http://moneyline.cq.com
   Searchable by PACs, donors, candidates, campaigns, etc.

Fundrace Neighbor Search - ignore the lawn signs, see which candidates your neighbors really support

Project Vote Smart
   http://www.vote-smart.org/
   Issues tracking, vote report cards

Open Secrets
   http://www.opensecrets.org/
   Candidate profiles, fundraising statistics, ties lobbying, legislation, and contributions together

Campaigns & Elections Magazine
   http://www.campaignline.com/

Campaign Finance Institute
   http://www.cfinst.org

Politics1.com
  http://www.politics1.com/
  General information, newsletter, directory of political parties

PACs and LISTS

PACRONYMS 
  http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/
pacronyms/pacronyms.shtml  Alphabetical list of acronyms, abbreviations, initials, and common names of federal political action committees (PACs), from the FEC

Business Industry PAC
  http://www.bipac.org/

International Association of Fire Fighters
  FIREPAC

National Association of Business Association PACs
  http://www.nabpac.org/

TRAINING

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POLITICAL PARTY SITES

 Democratic Party Headquarters
  http://www.democrats.org/

Democratic Senate Campaign Comm.
    http://www.dscc.org/

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
   http://www.dccc.org/

Republican National Committee
   http://www.rnc.org/

Republican Senate Campaign Committee
   http://www.nrsc.org/

National Republican Congressional Committee
  http://www.nrcc.org/

House Republican Conference   http://www.gop.gov/committeecentral/

NEWS and INFORMATION

Congressional Quarterly
  http://www.cq.com/

National Journal Hotline ($ fee)  http://nationaljournal.com/pubs/hotline/

All Politics (Time, CNN)
  http://www.allpolitics.com/

Roll Call
  http://www.rollcall.com/

BOOKS

Washington Representatives, paperback (Columbia Books)

Washington Information Directory 2007-2008, hardcover (CQ)


527s

527 Committee Activity - from OpenSecrets


To view this list on the web, see this short list at
     www.PACWebSites.com

If you need to know how A PAC works or if you want to increase the effectiveness of your PAC, we have several Capitol Learning Audio Courses: PACS in a Nutshell or PAC Management: Advanced PAC Strategy.

 

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