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In the United States, a political action committee (PAC) is a 527 organization that pools campaign contributions from members and donates those funds to campaigns for or against candidates, ballot initiatives, or legislation. The legal term PAC has been created in pursuit of campaign finance reform in the United States. This term is quite specific to all activities of campaign finance in the United States. Democracies of other countries use different terms for the units of campaign spending or spending on political competition. At the U.S. federal level, an organization becomes a PAC when it receives or spends more than $1,000 for the purpose of influencing a federal election, and registers with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), according to the Federal Election Campaign Act as amended by the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002. At the state level, an organization becomes a PAC according to the state's election laws.
The 2010 United States Senate election in Kansas took place on November 2, 2010, alongside other elections to the United States Senate in other states as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Sam Brownback did not seek a third term, but instead successfully ran for Governor of Kansas. Republican nominee Jerry Moran won the open seat.
Richard Proehl is a Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 7th district. He was elected to his first term on December 21, 2005.
Sheryl Spalding is a Republican former member of the Kansas House of Representatives, who represented the 29th district. She served from 2007 until she was defeated by Craig McPherson in 2012.
Ron Worley is a former Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 30th district. He served from 2007 through 2013, having been defeated in the 2012 Republican Primary by Rep. Lance Kinzer of Olathe, after Kinzer and Worley were put in the same district during re-districting. Kinzer then subsequently retired in 2014, endorsing Randy Powell as his successor. Worley challenged Powell for his old seat in the primary and was subsequently defeated.
Connie O'Brien is a Republican and a former member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 42nd district. A native of Kansas City, Missouri, she served from 2009 to 2017.
Barbara W. Ballard is a Democratic member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 44th district. Born in Petersburg, Virginia, she has served since 1993.
Steve Huebert is a Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 90th district. He has served since 2001. The American Conservative Union has given him a lifetime evaluation of 81%.
Brenda Landwehr is a Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the state's 91st district. She has served since 1995. She is the owner of LT Care Solutions, Inc., and is a member of Christ the King Church, Comcare Mental Health Advisory Board, and the Salvation Army Foster Care Advisory Board.
Mario Goico is a former Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives. From Wichita, Kansas
Delia Garcia is an American official who formerly served as the Kansas Secretary of Labor. Garcia previously served as a Democratic member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 103rd district. She served from 2005 to 2010, and was a member of the Kansas Democratic Hispanic Caucus.
Sharon Schwartz is a Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 106th district. She has served since 1997.
Elaine Bowers is a Republican member of the Kansas Senate, representing the 36th district since 2013.
Clay Aurand is a former Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 109th district from 1995 to 2013.
Daniel H. Johnson was a Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 110th district. He served from 1997 to 2011.
Mitch Holmes was a Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 114th district, where he served from 2005 to 2013. He was then elected to represent the 33rd district in the Kansas Senate in 2012. He decided not to run for reelection on June 1, 2016. During his time in the legislature, he was given evaluations of 69%, 76%, 67%, 73% and the most recent evaluation of 82% from the American Conservative Union.
Larry Powell is a former Republican member of the Kansas Senate, representing the 39th district from 2013 until 2017. He is a fourth generation Kansan, from Kalvesta, Kansas, and was a member of the Kansas House of Representatives representing the 117th district, from 2001 to 2012. Powell's identifies as anti-abortion and is an advocate of the Second Amendment. He is a supporter of local schools, family farms, and opposes tax increases.
Ty Masterson is a Republican member of the Kansas Senate, representing the 16th district since 2009. From 2005 to 2008, he was a Representative in the Kansas House of Representatives. He lives in Andover and has served on the Andover City Council. In 2017, the American Conservative Union gave him a lifetime rating of 81%.
Dick Kelsey is a former Republican member of the Kansas Senate, representing the 26th district from 2009 until 2013. He was previously a Kansas Representative elected in 2005.
Physicians in the United States Congress have been a small minority of the members of Congress, with fluctuating numbers over the years. The number of physicians serving and running for Congress has risen over the last 50 years from 5 in 1960, down to a nadir of 2 in 1990, to a maximum of 21 in 2013 and a decrease to 14 in 2017. Possible explanations for this development have been increasing health care spending, increased health care reform debate in the United States, leading up to the Healthcare Reform Act.