Direct answer · current non-memo rows
How much did federal committees report paying Staples Incorporated?
$28,319.14 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$28,319
Itemized payments179
Committees36
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.
Method 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Amendment-normalized5,103 superseded transaction versions were removed using committee, report, and transaction identifiers.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.
