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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
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