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Committees metadata
Description
Provides data pertaining to each committee registered with the Federal Election Commission.
Usage
committees
Format
A data frame with 17654 rows and 15 columns with information about FEC committees.
- cmte_id
A 9-character alpha-numeric code assigned to a committee by the Federal Election Commission
- cmte_nm
Name of the committee
- tres_nm
The officially registered treasurer for the committee
- cmte_st1
Street 1
- cmte_st2
Street 2
- cmte_city
City
- cmte_st
State
- cmte_zip
ZIP Code
- cmte_dsgn
A = Authorized by a candidate
B = Lobbyist/Registrant PAC
D = Leadership PAC
J = Joint fundraiser
P = Principal campaign committee of a candidate
U = Unauthorized
- cmte_tp
Committee Type, listed here: https://www.fec.gov/campaign-finance-data/committee-type-code-descriptions/
- cmte_pty_affiliation
Committee Party, listed here: https://www.fec.gov/campaign-finance-data/party-code-descriptions/
- cmte_filing_freq
Filing frequency: A = Administratively terminated,
D = Debt
M = Monthly filer
Q = Quarterly filer
T = Terminated
W = Waived
- org_tp
Interest group category:
C = Corporation
L = Labor organization
M = Membership organization
T = Trade association
V = Cooperative
W = Corporation without capital stock
- connected_org_nm
Connected organization's name
- cand_id
Candidate identification:When a committee has a committee type designation of H, S, or P, the candidate's identification number will be entered in this field.
Source
https://www.fec.gov/campaign-finance-data/committee-master-file-description/, updated 2020-03-02