FEC Schedule A ยท earmark routing ยท very legal laundry chute
PAC conduit โ banana crumbs through donors
Schedule A earmarked/conduit via tagged PAC committees โ semi-objective; never merged into PAS2 dependency %.
404 members indexed ยท 2024 cycle ยท 8/4/2026
How this differs from PAS2 totals
Member receipt pages show PAS2 committee-to-candidate transfers (direct PAC contributions). This index captures Schedule A individual contributions where FEC memo text or earmark fields route tagged PAC money to a member's principal committee โ a separate legal disclosure path.
See also LD-203 lobbyist conduit (lda.gov) and influence math.