FEC Operating Expenditures

This dataset contains information about disbursements disclosed on FEC reports, including operating expenditures reported on:

• Form 3, Line 17 for House and Senate committees
• Form 3P, Line 23 for Presidential committees
• Form 3X, Lines 21(a)(i), 21(a)(ii), and 21(b) for PAC and Party committees

For electronic filing committees, operating expenditures are available from the 2004 election cycle to the present.

For paper filing committees, operating expenditures are available starting October 2005 through the present.

The dataset contains information about the committee making the disbursement, the report where the operating expenditure is disclosed, the entity receiving the disbursement, the disbursement’s date, amount, purpose, and additional information about the operating expenditure (if provided).

Records span election cycles from 2004 to the present. Each cycle's data is a separate table.