Direct answer · current non-memo rows
How much did federal committees report paying Cook Political Report?
$49,897.50 across current organization-payment rows in the 2026 FEC operating-expenditures file.
This is an aggregate by normalized filing name. It is not revenue, profit, a verified contract total, or proof that similarly named legal entities are the same organization.
Source: Federal Election Commission Schedule B operating expenditures.
Current amount$49,898
Itemized payments87
Committees25
Committee → organization payee
Largest published committee relationships
This page publishes at most 75 committee relationships for a payee-name group. The global amount above includes every current eligible row in the source aggregate.
SWING LEFT1 itemized payment · latest Feb 12, 2026 $1,537.00HOULAPAC1 itemized payment · latest Jan 13, 2025 $371.00Method boundary
Payee names are evidence, not conclusions.
Organizations onlyIndividual payees are excluded from this published store.
Amendment-normalized5,103 superseded transaction versions were removed using committee, report, and transaction identifiers.
Memo rows excluded343,673 memo-code X rows are excluded from totals because the FEC says they are not included in the itemization total.
Conservative matchingPunctuation and a small set of corporate suffixes are normalized. Election.org does not perform unverified corporate-family resolution.
