Sentence examples for action committees made from inspiring English sources
Auto dealers, their employees and political action committees made political contributions of more than $9.3 million in the 2008 election cycle, most of it to Republicans, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit research group.
Eight pharmaceutical political action committees made 134 contributions, spread over 77 politicians on March 21.
During the 2008 election cycle, the center found that auto dealers and their associated political action committees made a total of $9 million in campaign contributions, giving by a 3-to-1 margin to Republicans.
By contrast, political action committees making contributions to candidates will not have to do financial disclosure until July 15.
(Donations from the traditional sector tend to come from individuals rather than institutions or political action committees, making a comparison difficult).
The company's employees and its political action committee made 85percentt of their contributions to Republicans in 2000.
Microsoft's political action committee made $9,000 in contributions to Mr. Ashcroft's Senate re-election campaign.
Silicon Valley companies and executives raised $40 million to defeat the measure, and later founded TechNet, a bipartisan political action committee made up of more 190 executives.
Club for Growth, a conservative political action committee, made opposition an important vote in its ratings of lawmakers, and Heritage Action, the political arm of the Heritage Foundation, demanded a "no" vote.
Mr. Weber, a former member of Congress from Minnesota who served as co-chairman of Mr. Pawlenty's political action committee, made his initial remarks during an interview with The Hill newspaper.
Rather than make a contribution to the Romney-Ryan ticket when it mattered earlier in the 2012 campaign, Sarah Palin's political action committee made a last-minute $5,000 contribution this week in what was obviously an attempt to call attention to Palin rather than to aid the final Romney campaign push in any meaningful way.
