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单词 political action committee
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Definition of political action committee in English:

political action committee

noun
  • (in the US) an organization that raises money privately to influence elections or legislation, particularly at the federal level.

    her political action committee has raised almost $900,000 this election cycle
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Most of that money does not come from voluntary contributions to political action committees, which I have no problem with.
    • The challengers will run ads with money provided by special-interest political action committees portraying the incumbents as anti-family spendthrift liberals.
    • Instead, they establish political action committees, or PACs, through which money is funneled on the suspect theory that there is a difference between a corporation or organization and the PAC.
    • America Votes will have help from a new political action committee, America Coming Together, which expects to raise $75 million by Election Day in pledges from wealthy donors.
    • Currently Pennsylvania law prohibits corporations from contributing money to candidates, but individuals and political action committees can give unlimited cash.
    • They banded together to launch the first national Black women's political action committee.
    • In the private sector, he headed a multicandidate political action committee, practiced law with two firms, and headed the law department of a trade association.
    • To make their new buddy feel welcome at the dinner, the lobbyists pitched in $100,000 for his political action committee.
    • The idea was to reduce the influence of big-money corporate political action committees and high-net-worth donors.
    • Some provisions restrict people's contributions of money to candidates, parties, or political action committees.
    • Revisions of the law did allow political action committees to use corporate money for ‘administrative’ purposes.
    • The prevailing view is that with the banning of soft money, political action committees will once again serve as the conduit of choice for the wealthy.
    • She wrote checks to herself from the political action committee's bank account.
    • These campaign finance laws forced special interests to organize into political action committees and greatly institutionalized the practice of buying influence with campaign contributions.
    • Therefore, I propose that we organize a political action committee on a national level, to address the concerns of our communities.
    • Incumbents also find it easier than challengers to raise money - largely from wealthy political action committees and their parties who seek to invest in success and relative certainty.
    • Republicans have long raised more than Democrats in so-called hard money donations, which come from individuals and political action committees and are limited in size.
    • It doesn't ban such ads, but it does say the issue groups would have to raise separate money through a political action committee - ‘hard money’ it's called - to pay for those ads.
    • In addition to parties, there are also political action committees, lobbying groups, campaign organizations, trade unions, and industry and professional organizations.
    • Love Makes a Family's political action committee endorsed 26 legislative candidates.
 
 

Definition of political action committee in US English:

political action committee

noun
  • (in the US) an organization that raises money privately to influence elections or legislation, especially at the federal level.

    her political action committee has raised almost $900,000 this election cycle
    Example sentencesExamples
    • To make their new buddy feel welcome at the dinner, the lobbyists pitched in $100,000 for his political action committee.
    • These campaign finance laws forced special interests to organize into political action committees and greatly institutionalized the practice of buying influence with campaign contributions.
    • Therefore, I propose that we organize a political action committee on a national level, to address the concerns of our communities.
    • Republicans have long raised more than Democrats in so-called hard money donations, which come from individuals and political action committees and are limited in size.
    • Some provisions restrict people's contributions of money to candidates, parties, or political action committees.
    • They banded together to launch the first national Black women's political action committee.
    • In the private sector, he headed a multicandidate political action committee, practiced law with two firms, and headed the law department of a trade association.
    • Currently Pennsylvania law prohibits corporations from contributing money to candidates, but individuals and political action committees can give unlimited cash.
    • Most of that money does not come from voluntary contributions to political action committees, which I have no problem with.
    • America Votes will have help from a new political action committee, America Coming Together, which expects to raise $75 million by Election Day in pledges from wealthy donors.
    • In addition to parties, there are also political action committees, lobbying groups, campaign organizations, trade unions, and industry and professional organizations.
    • Love Makes a Family's political action committee endorsed 26 legislative candidates.
    • She wrote checks to herself from the political action committee's bank account.
    • Incumbents also find it easier than challengers to raise money - largely from wealthy political action committees and their parties who seek to invest in success and relative certainty.
    • Instead, they establish political action committees, or PACs, through which money is funneled on the suspect theory that there is a difference between a corporation or organization and the PAC.
    • It doesn't ban such ads, but it does say the issue groups would have to raise separate money through a political action committee - ‘hard money’ it's called - to pay for those ads.
    • Revisions of the law did allow political action committees to use corporate money for ‘administrative’ purposes.
    • The prevailing view is that with the banning of soft money, political action committees will once again serve as the conduit of choice for the wealthy.
    • The challengers will run ads with money provided by special-interest political action committees portraying the incumbents as anti-family spendthrift liberals.
    • The idea was to reduce the influence of big-money corporate political action committees and high-net-worth donors.
 
 
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