Federal Election Commission political committee

GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (GENERAL DYNAMICS EMPLOYEE PAC)

FEC committee C00078451. Which candidates it gave to and spent on, with direct contributions and independent expenditures kept apart.

Registration

A multicandidate political action committee. It may contribute to candidates within federal limits.

Federal Election Commission registration for committee C00078451
FEC committee ID C00078451
Reported name GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (GENERAL DYNAMICS EMPLOYEE PAC)Names change; this page is keyed to the committee ID, so an old name still reaches it.
Committee type PAC, qualified Q
Designation Lobbyist or registrant PAC B
Party affiliation None reported
Connected organization GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION Corporation This is the relationship the committee itself reported to the FEC. It is not a MyRepTracker judgement about who controls the committee.
Registration read from The FEC's committee master for the 2024 cycle
Registration date Not availableThe FEC's published committee master carries no registration date. The FEC record linked below shows it.
FEC record Committee C00078451 at FEC.gov ↗

Who runs this committee, and what it advances

Sponsor type and interest assignment for committee C00078451 in the 2024 cycle
Kind of committee Corporate PACs Derived from the registration this committee filed for the 2024 cycle. This is the FEC's own record, not a MyRepTracker judgement.
Interest advanced Defense Defense Categorized by hand from the committee's filings and its recorded recipients. The filing establishes the committee's identity; the interest is a human judgement. Source: Curated by hand from the committee's filings. Read the source ↗

What this committee raised and spent on itself

These are the committee's own figures, from the summary the FEC publishes of the reports it has filed, covering the period ending Dec 31, 2024. The FEC rebuilds that summary as new reports arrive, so these figures move; these are the figures the file the FEC built on Aug 20, 2026 reported.

Nothing here is added to the candidate-by-candidate amounts elsewhere on this page. Those are money this committee moved to or against specific campaigns; these are its own accounts.

What it raised

Receipts reported by committee C00078451 for the 2024 cycle
Measure Amount
Total receipts $2,613,620
Contributions received Before refunds $2,601,120
From individuals $2,601,120
From individuals, itemized Contributions the FEC requires be reported one by one $2,273,404
From individuals, unitemized Reported only as a total, so no detail exists for them here or at the FEC $327,716
From other political committees $0
From party committees $0
Total loans $0
Transfers in from affiliated committees Already raised money moving, not new money $0
Other receipts $0

What it spent

Disbursements reported by committee C00078451 for the 2024 cycle
Measure Amount
Total disbursements $2,633,600
Other disbursements $47,500
Operating expenditures, net of offsets As the FEC reports it, not derived here $0
Transfers out to affiliated committees $0
Other loan repayments $0

What it holds, owes, and gave back

Cash, debts, and refunds reported by committee C00078451 for the 2024 cycle
Measure Amount
Cash on hand at the end of the period $759,634
Cash on hand at the start of the period $779,614
Debts the committee owes $0
Debts owed to the committee $0
Contributions refunded $100
Refunded to individuals $100
Refunded to other political committees $0
Refunded to party committees $0
Contributions net of refunds As the FEC reports it, not derived here $2,601,020

Its own totals for candidate activity

These will not match the per-candidate rows on this page, and are not meant to. These are the committee's own totals across every federal candidate. They will not match the per-candidate rows on this page, which are read from the contribution and independent-expenditure filings and cover only the candidates MyRepTracker tracks. The two are never added together.

As the committee reported it

Candidate-facing totals reported by committee C00078451 for the 2024 cycle
Measure Amount
Contributions to federal candidates $2,586,000
Independent expenditures For and against candidates combined; this figure carries no support or oppose split $0
Coordinated party expenditures Only party committees may make these $0

Left blank on this committee's reports, so unavailable rather than zero: From the candidate, Loans from the candidate, Other loans, Operating expenditures, Loan repayments to the candidate, Total loan repayments. Many are columns only one kind of committee files.

This committee's record at the FEC ↗

What this committee did in the 2024 cycle

Each row below is a different kind of money and they are never added together. A contribution is money a campaign received. An independent expenditure was never the campaign's money at all. Adding them would state a relationship the filings do not support. These figures cover candidate filings through Dec 31, 2024.

Activity by kind for committee C00078451 in the 2024 cycle
Kind of activity Amount Candidates Transactions
Contributions to candidates $1,308,000 259 844
Distinct candidates involved No combined total 259

Every recipient

Every candidate this committee gave to or spent on in the 2024 cycle, sorted by amount with ties broken by FEC candidate ID so the order is the same on every request. Each row links to that candidate's own page, where the same money appears from their side. Itemized rows as published by the FEC on Mar 8, 2026.

MyRepTracker reads these amounts from what the giving and spending committees filed. A candidate's own summary of what they received often differs, which is normal and is explained on the candidate's page; it is not a reason to doubt this committee's own filing, and nothing here is adjusted to make the two agree.

Every candidate below has a recorded party, office, and state, so no filter hides rows for missing data.

50 of 259 shown (page 3) $1,308,000 total · $218,000 shown here
Every candidate receiving activity from committee C00078451 in the 2024 cycle, ranked by amount
Rank Candidate Activity Office Party State Amount Share Transactions Latest activity Coverage
101 Carlos A. Gimenez H0FL26036 Contribution to the campaign House district 26 Republican FL $5,000 0.4% 5 Sep 11, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
102 Andrew R. Garbarino H0NY02234 Contribution to the campaign House district 2 Republican NY $5,000 0.4% 4 Sep 27, 2023 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
103 August Pfluger H0TX11230 Contribution to the campaign House district 11 Republican TX $5,000 0.4% 1 Sep 11, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
104 Dale W. Strong H2AL05102 Contribution to the campaign House district 5 Republican AL $5,000 0.4% 4 Sep 16, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
105 Donald G. Davis H2NC02287 Contribution to the campaign House district 2 Democratic NC $5,000 0.4% 5 Jun 24, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
106 Mike Flood H2NE01118 Contribution to the campaign House district 1 Republican NE $5,000 0.4% 5 Sep 24, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
107 Hakeem S. Jeffries H2NY10092 Contribution to the campaign House district 10 Democratic NY $5,000 0.4% 1 Dec 4, 2023 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
108 Bruce Westerman H4AR04048 Contribution to the campaign House district 4 Republican AR $5,000 0.4% 2 Feb 13, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
109 Tim Walberg H4MI07103 Contribution to the campaign House district 7 Republican MI $5,000 0.4% 2 Oct 22, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
110 Patrick T. McHenry H4NC10047 Contribution to the campaign House district 10 Republican NC $5,000 0.4% 1 Jul 19, 2023 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
111 Jennifer L. McClellan H4VA04066 Contribution to the campaign House district 4 Democratic VA $5,000 0.4% 4 Oct 29, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
112 Donald S. Beyer, Jr. H4VA08224 Contribution to the campaign House district 8 Democratic VA $5,000 0.4% 3 Sep 24, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
113 Jimmy Panetta H6CA20152 Contribution to the campaign House district 20 Democratic CA $5,000 0.4% 5 Sep 24, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
114 Jack Bergman H6MI01226 Contribution to the campaign House district 1 Republican MI $5,000 0.4% 3 Sep 10, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
115 Brian K. Fitzpatrick H6PA08277 Contribution to the campaign House district 8 Republican PA $5,000 0.4% 4 Mar 21, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
116 Jahana Hayes H8CT05245 Contribution to the campaign House district 5 Democratic CT $5,000 0.4% 4 Oct 22, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
117 Ron Estes H8KS04112 Contribution to the campaign House district 4 Republican KS $5,000 0.4% 3 Oct 30, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
118 Kyrsten Sinema S8AZ00197 Contribution to the campaign Senate Independent AZ $5,000 0.4% 2 Mar 17, 2023 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
119 Kat Cammack H0FL03175 Contribution to the campaign House district 3 Republican FL $4,500 0.3% 4 Jul 25, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
120 Richard McCormick H0GA07273 Contribution to the campaign House district 7 Republican GA $4,500 0.3% 3 Sep 21, 2023 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
121 Blake D. Moore H0UT01205 Contribution to the campaign House district 1 Republican UT $4,500 0.3% 3 Mar 28, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
122 Suzan K. DelBene H0WA08046 Contribution to the campaign House district 8 Democratic WA $4,500 0.3% 3 Jul 31, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
123 Cory Mills H2FL07156 Contribution to the campaign House district 7 Republican FL $4,500 0.3% 4 Nov 4, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
124 James A. Himes H8CT04172 Contribution to the campaign House district 4 Democratic CT $4,500 0.3% 2 May 21, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
125 Eric A. "Rick" Crawford H0AR01083 Contribution to the campaign House district 1 Republican AR $4,000 0.3% 4 Sep 23, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
126 William R. Keating H0MA10082 Contribution to the campaign House district 10 Democratic MA $4,000 0.3% 4 Jun 11, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
127 Hillary J. Scholten H0MI03316 Contribution to the campaign House district 3 Democratic MI $4,000 0.3% 4 Apr 16, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
128 Eric Swalwell H2CA15094 Contribution to the campaign House district 15 Democratic CA $4,000 0.3% 4 Jun 4, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
129 Scott H. Peters H2CA52089 Contribution to the campaign House district 52 Democratic CA $4,000 0.3% 4 Jun 25, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
130 Mark Alford H2MO04207 Contribution to the campaign House district 4 Republican MO $4,000 0.3% 3 Sep 24, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
131 Anthony D’Esposito H2NY04277 Contribution to the campaign House district 4 Republican NY $4,000 0.3% 4 Sep 11, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
132 Max L. Miller H2OH16051 Contribution to the campaign House district 16 Republican OH $4,000 0.3% 3 Sep 17, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
133 Debbie Dingell H4MI12079 Contribution to the campaign House district 12 Democratic MI $4,000 0.3% 4 Jul 25, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
134 Michael A. Rulli H4OH06165 Contribution to the campaign House district 6 Republican OH $4,000 0.3% 3 Jul 25, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
135 Neal P. Dunn H6FL02208 Contribution to the campaign House district 2 Republican FL $4,000 0.3% 4 Sep 23, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
136 Kathy Castor H6FL11126 Contribution to the campaign House district 11 Democratic FL $4,000 0.3% 4 Sep 16, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
137 A. Drew Ferguson IV H6GA03113 Contribution to the campaign House district 3 Republican GA $4,000 0.3% 3 Nov 1, 2023 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
138 Darin LaHood H6IL18088 Contribution to the campaign House district 18 Republican IL $4,000 0.3% 4 Sep 10, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
139 Josh Gottheimer H6NJ05171 Contribution to the campaign House district 5 Democratic NJ $4,000 0.3% 4 Sep 24, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
140 Thomas R. Suozzi H6NY03247 Contribution to the campaign House district 3 Democratic NY $4,000 0.3% 3 Sep 24, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
141 Greg Stanton H8AZ09040 Contribution to the campaign House district 9 Democratic AZ $4,000 0.3% 4 May 7, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
142 Chrissy Houlahan H8PA06087 Contribution to the campaign House district 6 Democratic PA $4,000 0.3% 4 Sep 23, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
143 William R. Timmons IV H8SC04250 Contribution to the campaign House district 4 Republican SC $4,000 0.3% 2 Apr 23, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
144 Veronica Escobar H8TX16109 Contribution to the campaign House district 16 Democratic TX $4,000 0.3% 3 Sep 24, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
145 Frank J. Mrvan H0IN01150 Contribution to the campaign House district 1 Democratic IN $3,500 0.3% 2 Oct 28, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
146 Nancy Mace H0SC01394 Contribution to the campaign House district 1 Republican SC $3,500 0.3% 2 Sep 23, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
147 Markwayne Mullin H2OK02083 Contribution to the campaign House district 2 Republican OK $3,500 0.3% 1 Jun 28, 2023 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
148 Ted Budd H6NC13129 Contribution to the campaign House district 13 Republican NC $3,500 0.3% 3 Feb 19, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
149 Lloyd Smucker H6PA16320 Contribution to the campaign House district 16 Republican PA $3,500 0.3% 2 Mar 7, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
150 Steve Cohen H6TN09068 Contribution to the campaign House district 9 Democratic TN $3,500 0.3% 2 Apr 23, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
Showing 101 to 150 of 259 recipients
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Contributions to candidates

Money this committee gave to candidates' authorized campaign committees out of its own funds. This is a contribution the campaign received and reported; it is not outside spending.

Top 10 of 259 shown $1,308,000 total · $112,500 shown here
Contributions to candidates by committee C00078451 in the 2024 cycle, ranked by amount
Rank Candidate Office Party State Amount Share Transactions Latest activity Coverage
1 Jon Tester S6MT00162 Senate Democratic MT $17,000 1.3% 6 Oct 16, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
2 Chellie Pingree H8ME01120 House district 1 Democratic ME $12,500 1.0% 6 Sep 10, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
3 Katherine M. Clark H4MA05084 House district 5 Democratic MA $11,000 0.8% 7 Nov 4, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
4 Dan Newhouse H4WA04104 House district 4 Republican WA $11,000 0.8% 7 Sep 26, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
5 John H. Rutherford H6FL04105 House district 4 Republican FL $11,000 0.8% 8 Oct 28, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
6 Jerry L. Carl H0AL01055 House district 1 Republican AL $10,000 0.8% 5 Dec 12, 2023 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
7 Steve Womack H0AR03055 House district 3 Republican AR $10,000 0.8% 2 Dec 12, 2023 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
8 Mike Garcia H0CA25105 House district 25 Republican CA $10,000 0.8% 7 Sep 26, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
9 Rosa L. DeLauro H0CT03072 House district 3 Democratic CT $10,000 0.8% 5 Oct 16, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
10 Scott Franklin H0FL15104 House district 15 Republican FL $10,000 0.8% 6 Nov 4, 2024 2024 cycle, through Dec 31, 2024
Show all 259 in the complete table →

How the 2024 cycle's activity was distributed

Each kind of activity is distributed on its own. Contributions and independent expenditures are never combined into one distribution, because the two are not the same kind of money. Every bar below repeats its amount, share, and candidate count as text in the same row.

Contributions to candidates

$1,308,000 across 259 candidates in the 2024 cycle, covering filings through Dec 31, 2024. Every share below is a share of that amount, and no other kind of activity is included in it.

By the recipient's party

Contributions to candidates distributed by the recipient candidate's party
Party Amount Share Candidates
Republican $758,500 58.0% 151
Democratic $533,000 40.7% 105
Independent $16,500 1.3% 3
Total $1,308,000 100%

By office and chamber

Contributions to candidates distributed by the office the recipient candidate sought
Office Amount Share Candidates
House $1,153,000 88.1% 234
Senate $155,000 11.9% 25
Total $1,308,000 100%

By the candidate's state

Top 12 of 47 shown. The complete list is in the recipient table above, which can be filtered by the same values.

Contributions to candidates distributed by the recipient candidate's state
State Amount Share Candidates
FL $87,000 6.7% 16
CA $86,000 6.6% 16
TX $76,500 5.8% 18
OH $60,500 4.6% 13
NY $58,500 4.5% 14
VA $54,500 4.2% 10
GA $49,500 3.8% 10
MI $48,500 3.7% 11
PA $46,000 3.5% 12
WA $43,000 3.3% 7
AL $40,000 3.1% 6
LA $40,000 3.1% 4
Total $1,308,000 100%

A distribution covering candidates from more than one party is a fact about where the money went. It is not evidence of a motive, a strategy, or an agreement, and this page does not suggest one.

Activity over time

Each kind of activity by the month the FEC records date it to, across the 2024 cycle, covering filings through Dec 31, 2024. Bars are drawn from a zero baseline against one shared scale of $157,000, so the series are directly comparable, and every value is repeated in its own row. Each series adds up to the same total as its section above.

Contributions to candidates

$1,308,000 placed by month.

Contributions to candidates by month in the 2024 cycle
Month Amount Transactions
Jan 2023 $21,500 9
Feb 2023 $43,000 30
Mar 2023 $140,000 77
Apr 2023 $16,000 12
May 2023 $52,500 38
Jun 2023 $102,500 77
Jul 2023 $40,000 29
Aug 2023 $25,000 17
Sep 2023 $106,500 74
Oct 2023 $29,500 24
Nov 2023 $39,000 34
Dec 2023 $72,500 42
Jan 2024 $6,000 6
Feb 2024 $75,000 50
Mar 2024 $96,000 61
Apr 2024 $42,000 33
May 2024 $39,000 31
Jun 2024 $60,000 46
Jul 2024 $32,500 21
Aug 2024 $6,500 3
Sep 2024 $157,000 81
Oct 2024 $82,500 40
Nov 2024 $18,500 7
Dec 2024 $5,000 2
Date not reported $0
Total for the cycle $1,308,000

Money moved to and from affiliated committees

A transfer moves money that has already been raised, between committees the FEC treats as affiliated. It is not a contribution and it is not new money, so none of it is counted anywhere else on this page. Both committees file their own record of the same transfer; the rows below are only this committee's own filings, and the counterparty's version is on its page rather than added here.

This committee reported no transfer to or from an affiliated committee in the 2024 cycle.

Filings behind these figures

The filing ledger is unavailable for the 2024 cycle. The filing ledger collects the reports of the committees a federal candidate files through, and this committee is not one of them, so no filing has been collected for it.

What these numbers mean

A contribution is not an independent expenditure
A contribution is money a committee gave to a candidate's own campaign committee, which the campaign received and reported. An independent expenditure is money spent about a candidate without coordinating with them; the campaign never received or controlled it. The Federal Election Commission treats these as different activities, and so does this page.
Money forwarded through a conduit was given by individuals
Some committees exist to transmit contributions that individual donors earmarked for a campaign. The FEC records name the conduit as the filer, but the donors are people, and the conduit did not give the money.
This page reads the giving side
Every amount here comes from what the giving or spending committee filed. A candidate's own summary of what they received is a separate record, made at a different time, and the two routinely differ. Neither is a correction of the other, and MyRepTracker does not adjust either one.
Coverage is the candidates MyRepTracker follows
These pages are built from the FEC records of the federal candidates in MyRepTracker's coverage. A committee may have given to candidates outside that coverage, so the recipients here are the complete list within it, not necessarily everything the committee did.
A committee ID is the identity
Committees are renamed and their registrations change between cycles. This page is keyed to the FEC committee ID, so an old name reaches the same page, and the registration shown is the one filed for the cycle you are viewing.
A transfer is not a contribution
Money moved between affiliated committees was raised once and is being moved. It is never counted as money raised or as money given to a candidate, and the sending and receiving committees each file their own record of it, so a total that added both sides would report the same money twice.
A superseded filing is kept, and counted toward nothing
An amendment replaces a report rather than adjusting it, so exactly one filing is in force for each committee and coverage period. The filing ledger lists the replaced versions too, because the correction history is worth being able to read, and none of them contributes to any amount, ranking, or comparison here.
A request for additional information is not a finding
The FEC routinely asks committees to clarify or correct something in a report. A request is correspondence, not a violation, an enforcement action, or a judgement about the committee, and nothing on this page is ranked, scored, or adjusted because one was sent.
A leadership PAC is not a campaign committee
A leadership PAC is established or controlled by a candidate or officeholder to support other candidates, and is separate from their own campaign. Its receipts are not their campaign's receipts and its contributions are not their campaign's contributions. Where a sponsor is named here, the FEC published that sponsor's own candidate ID on the committee's record; no sponsor is ever matched by name.

Source: Federal Election Commission ↗. MyRepTracker ingests FEC records directly and does not add its own influence, risk, or corruption score.