Surgeon contributions to the American College of Surgeons PAC

College PAC versus the rest of the Surgeon book

About one-quarter of Surgeon itemized dollars (24.3%) landed on the College PAC. $13,910,387 went to candidate committees and other PACs. A college PAC can be a large dollar join without capturing the occupation’s candidate giving.

18,002 receipts at mean $249 sit between sparse megadonor joins and high-count labor PACs. The packet has no unique-donor count and no specialty split inside Surgeon—general, orthopedic, and plastic can share the same occupation stamp if that is what was typed.

Links: Surgeon occupation hub, ACS Professional Association PAC committee page, All occupations, All FEC ties. Neurosurgeon to NeurosurgeryPAC is a sibling specialty join, not a subset of Surgeon.

Keep Surgeon → ACS PAC (C00382424): $4,476,393 in 18,002 itemized receipts. on one sentence and the occupation-wide total on another. All FEC ties is the index for other occupation-to-committee pages. This snapshot does not replace FEC.gov bulk files.

SURGEON as a self-reported stamp

Surgeon’s occupation total is $18,386,780. MD, physician, and named-specialty strings can exist as other keys. They are not recoded into Surgeon. Board certification is not an FEC field.

A filer can list Surgeon and give only to candidates, never appearing in $4,476,393. A filer can list a narrower specialty and give to C00382424, never appearing in this occupation slice. Both absences are expected.

Quote Surgeon for the occupation-wide $18,386,780 and quote AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION PAC (C00382424) for the committee overlay. The overlap remains $4,476,393 across 18,002 itemized receipts, 24.3% of the occupation book, mean $249. Remainder $13,910,387 (75.7%) went to other federal committees that stored the same occupation string. All occupations and All FEC ties keep the pair in the index. Itemized individual contributions only; independent expenditures are outside the source note. Later FEC bulk files override this snapshot. Do not add $4,476,393 to $18,386,780. Do not treat 18,002 as unique donors.

C00382424 on the committee side

AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION PAC is the recipient. $4,476,393 is the Surgeon occupation slice, not the PAC’s all-occupation total. Other titles on the same PAC sit outside the join.

College membership dues are not Schedule A occupation totals. Independent expenditures are excluded. Cycle years are not in this packet. Cite the live committee file for amendments.

Amended Schedule A filings move $4,476,393 and $18,386,780. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. This /ties/ page is a join snapshot, not a substitute for the occupation hub or the committee file on FEC.gov. Coverage stops at itemized individual contributions grouped by occupation and recipient committee. Unitemized gifts never enter either integer.

What the join will not score

Hospital-system influence, device-maker overlap, and vote scoring are not fields. 24.3% is a dollar share of an occupation book, not a share of practicing surgeons.

Do not add Neurosurgeon, Orthopedic Surgeon, or Plastic Surgeon to Surgeon. Those are other occupation keys if present in the file. This page keeps SURGEON as stored.

Keep Surgeon → ACS PAC (C00382424): $4,476,393 in 18,002 itemized receipts. on one sentence and the occupation-wide total on another. All FEC ties is the index for other occupation-to-committee pages. This snapshot does not replace FEC.gov bulk files.

Source note

FEC.gov aggregates of itemized individual contributions grouped by occupation and recipient committee. Surgeon $18,386,780; Surgeon to C00382424 $4,476,393 in 18,002 lines. Not independent expenditures.

All FEC ties holds other occupation-PAC pages. Do not add the two dollar totals. Later bulk files override this snapshot.

Quote Surgeon for the occupation-wide $18,386,780 and quote AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION PAC (C00382424) for the committee overlay. The overlap remains $4,476,393 across 18,002 itemized receipts, 24.3% of the occupation book, mean $249. Remainder $13,910,387 (75.7%) went to other federal committees that stored the same occupation string. All occupations and All FEC ties keep the pair in the index. Itemized individual contributions only; independent expenditures are outside the source note. Later FEC bulk files override this snapshot. Do not add $4,476,393 to $18,386,780. Do not treat 18,002 as unique donors.

Questions

How much have surgeons given to the ACS PAC?

$4,476,393 in 18,002 itemized contributions from occupation Surgeon to C00382424. That is 24.3% of Surgeon’s $18,386,780 occupation-wide total. Mean $249 is arithmetic on those two integers. Unique donors are not published here.

Are neurosurgeons included in the Surgeon total?

Only if the occupation line stored Surgeon. Neurosurgeon is a different key with its own committee joins. This page does not recode specialties into Surgeon. Use All occupations to move between title strings. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.

Is $4.5 million the College PAC’s total receipts?

No. $4,476,393 is the Surgeon occupation slice of C00382424. Other occupations can appear on the same PAC. The committee overlay is the place to read the PAC beyond this join. Independent expenditures remain outside the source note. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.

Where are the two hubs?

Surgeon holds $18,386,780. AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION PAC holds the C00382424 overlay. All occupations and All FEC ties index neighboring keys. This /ties/ URL is only the overlap. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.