Corrections
When we get something wrong, we say so here and leave the entry up.
11 September 2026Home page and organizationsThe introduction to the “Who moves the most money” list said that counting AIPAC’s PAC checks alone would miss “almost seventeen times” that much money. The three figures in the same sentence work out to about sixteen times. The sentence had been typed in by hand. It is now computed from the same data as the list beneath it. Separately, one committee could appear under two names on two pages, because the Commission records different names for the same committee in different files. The Senate Leadership Fund is filed as “SLF PAC” in the committee master, and American Crystal Sugar Company is misspelled “COMPAY” there. Each committee now has one printed name on every page. No dollar figure changed.
7 September 2026Article: What is a PAC?The article called the National Beer Wholesalers Association the biggest direct PAC donor to sitting members in our database. It is the fifth-biggest. The claim came from an internal ranking that quietly included only corporate and trade-association committees; ranked across every kind of organization, the largest direct donor is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s PAC at $8.0 million, followed by the National Association of Realtors. The beer wholesalers’ own figure and every other number in the article were correct. The passage now gives the full ranking. The error was caught by the site’s own organization index the day it launched.
18 August 2026Jacky Rosen: donor listLifePoint Health, a hospital operator, was captioned as “the financial firm’s PAC.” Its filed name contains the word “subsidiaries,” and our matching read the letters U-B-S inside it as the bank UBS. The caption was wrong about what the company does; the $15,000 figure beside it was correct. The description no longer appears, and matching now requires a whole word rather than any run of letters.
18 August 2026Richard J. Durbin: industry breakdownA $5,000 contribution from TelevisaUnivision, a Spanish-language broadcaster, was counted under “Banking & finance,” because the letters V-I-S-A appear inside the company’s name and were read as the card network Visa. The amount and the donor name were right; the industry was not. It is now counted as unlabeled corporate money, which is what we show when we have not classified a donor.