CommitteeType

The following table lists the enumerations for the type of committee in the CommitteeClassification entity:

Value Description
candidate Candidates for federal or state office
party Federal party committees; state party committees and state level legislative caucus committees
independent_spender All federal type independent spenders; and any state committees identified as independent spenders in states that data is provided and collected
pacs All federal PACs; State level PAC data is not collected by OS, unless the PAC is an independent spender. In that case the PAC would be coded as "Independent Spender"
ballot_measure_committee State level only. These are committees specifically raising and spending money for statewide ballot measures