Committee

AI-generated Key Takeaways

• The Committee element describes a political committee and is used exclusively in committee feeds, not in pre-election, election, or officeholder feeds.

• Each Committee element includes essential information such as affiliations, classifications, scope, contact details, external identifiers, and the official name of the committee.

• Committee elements use a variety of other elements like Affiliation, CommitteeClassification, and ExternalIdentifiers to provide comprehensive details about the committee.

• ExternalIdentifiers can include a stable identifier, FEC Committee ID, State Committee ID, and the IRS EIN (Tax ID) of the committee.

• Committee elements are uniquely identified by their objectId, which is referenced by other elements within the feed.

Note: This entity is only used in committee feeds. It isn't used with pre-election, election, or officeholder feeds.

Use Committee to describe a political committee. The ElectionReport element includes CommitteeCollection, which contains the full set of Committee objects in a committee feed.

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Attributes

The following table shows the attributes for Committee:

Attribute	Required?	Type	Description
objectId	Required	ID	Unique internal identifier that's used by other elements to reference this element.

Elements

The following table shows the elements for Committee:

Element	Multiplicity	Type	Description
AffiliationCollection	1	Affiliation	Contains the affiliations for a committee. An Affiliation is used to indicate an affiliation between a committee and a Person or a Party. An affiliation must contain either a PersonId or a PartyId but not both.
CommitteeClassificationCollection	1	CommitteeClassification	Contains the classifications for a committee.
CommitteeScopeGpUnitIds	1	IDREFS	Contains the objectId elements of any GpUnit elements the committee belongs to. This is either federal or references the state a committee belongs to.
ContactInformation	0 or 1	ContactInformation	Provides various forms of contact information. This element must contain an annotated URI that's annotated with wikipedia to specify the canonical Wikipedia page of the party. Also provide any other known official social media or website URIs for the party.
ExternalIdentifiers	1	ExternalIdentifiers	Associates an ID with the committee. A stable identifier is required. The ExternalIdentifiers element of Committee lets you provide additional information with particular values for OtherType. For more details, see Additional types for ExternalIdentifiers.
Name	1	InternationalizedText	Official name of the committee.

Additional types for ExternalIdentifiers

In the ExternalIdentifiers element of Committee, provide additional data with a Type of other, along with values for OtherType and Value. The following table shows possible values for these elements:

Identifier	Type	OtherType	Example values	Multiplicity	Description
IRS EIN (Tax ID)	other	ein	012345678	0 or 1	The IRS EIN (Tax ID) of a committee.
FEC Committee ID	national-level	N/A	C00100005	0 or 1	FEC Committee ID of a committee.
State Committee ID	state-level	N/A	va-id-123	0 or more	State Committee ID of a committee.

Examples

XML

    <Committee objectId="com001">
      <AffiliationCollection>
        <Affiliation>
          <EndDate>2023-02-22</EndDate>
          <PartyId>par0001</PartyId>
          <StartDate>2023-01-01</StartDate>
        </Affiliation>
        <Affiliation>
          <EndDate>2023-02-22</EndDate>
          <PersonId>per10861a</PersonId>
          <StartDate>2023-01-01</StartDate>
        </Affiliation>
      </AffiliationCollection>
      <CommitteeClassificationCollection>
        <CommitteeClassification>
          <EndDate>2023-02-22</EndDate>
          <NormalizedDesignation>authorized</NormalizedDesignation>
          <NormalizedType>candidate</NormalizedType>
          <RawDesignation>C</RawDesignation>
          <RawType>A</RawType>
          <ScopeLevel>ru000us</ScopeLevel>
          <StartDate>2023-01-01</StartDate>
        </CommitteeClassification>
        <CommitteeClassification>
          <EndDate>2023-02-22</EndDate>
          <NormalizedDesignation>authorized</NormalizedDesignation>
          <NormalizedType>candidate</NormalizedType>
          <RawDesignation>va_specific_type_as_string</RawDesignation>
          <RawType>va_specific_type_as_string</RawType>
          <ScopeLevel>ru0002</ScopeLevel>
          <StartDate>2023-01-01</StartDate>
        </CommitteeClassification>
      </CommitteeClassificationCollection>
      <CommitteeScopeGpUnitIds>ru000us ru0002</CommitteeScopeGpUnitIds>
      <ContactInformation>
        <Uri Annotation="official-website">http://www.fake.url</Uri>
      </ContactInformation>
      <ExternalIdentifiers>
        <ExternalIdentifier>
          <Type>other</Type>
          <OtherType>stable</OtherType>
          <Value>stable-committee-id-001</Value>
        </ExternalIdentifier>
        <ExternalIdentifier>
          <Type>national-level</Type>
          <Value>fec-committee-id-123</Value>
        </ExternalIdentifier>
        <ExternalIdentifier>
          <Type>state-level</Type>
          <Value>va-committee-id-123</Value>
        </ExternalIdentifier>
        <ExternalIdentifier>
          <Type>other</Type>
          <OtherType>ein</OtherType>
          <Value>12-3456789</Value>
        </ExternalIdentifier>
      </ExternalIdentifiers>
      <Name>
        <Text language="en">Example Committee</Text>
      </Name>
    </Committee>