Federal Election Commission political committee

THE AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT

FEC committee C00096842. 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 C00096842
FEC committee IDC00096842
Reported nameTHE AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENTNames change; this page is keyed to the committee ID, so an old name still reaches it.
Committee typePAC, qualified Q
DesignationLobbyist or registrant PAC B
Party affiliationNone reported
Connected organizationAMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER 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 fromThe FEC's committee master for the 2026 cycle
Registration dateNot availableThe FEC's published committee master carries no registration date. The FEC record linked below shows it.
FEC recordCommittee C00096842 at FEC.gov ↗

Who runs this committee, and what it advances

Sponsor type and interest assignment for committee C00096842 in the 2026 cycle
Kind of committeeCorporate PACs Derived from the registration this committee filed for the 2026 cycle. This is the FEC's own record, not a MyRepTracker judgement.
Interest advancedElectric utilities AI categorized Energy and natural resources This sector was assigned by machine from the filing linked below, and no person has reviewed it. The filing establishes who sponsors this committee; the sector is MyRepTracker's categorization of that sponsor. The committee's filing names AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER as its sponsoring organization. This categorization was AI generated. Source: Machine categorization from the committee's own filing. 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 Jul 31, 2026. The FEC rebuilds that summary as new reports arrive, so these figures move; these are the figures the file the FEC built on Sep 1, 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 C00096842 for the 2026 cycle
MeasureAmount
Total receipts$1,013,353
Contributions received Before refunds$1,003,653
From individuals$1,003,653
From individuals, itemized Contributions the FEC requires be reported one by one$754,182
From individuals, unitemized Reported only as a total, so no detail exists for them here or at the FEC$249,470
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 C00096842 for the 2026 cycle
MeasureAmount
Total disbursements$1,091,489
Other disbursements$675,339
Operating expenditures, net of offsets As the FEC reports it, not derived here$600
Transfers out to affiliated committees$0
Other loan repayments$0

What it holds, owes, and gave back

Cash, debts, and refunds reported by committee C00096842 for the 2026 cycle
MeasureAmount
Cash on hand at the end of the period$194,593
Cash on hand at the start of the period$272,730
Debts the committee owes$0
Debts owed to the committee$0
Contributions refunded$350
Refunded to individuals$350
Refunded to other political committees$0
Refunded to party committees$0
Contributions net of refunds As the FEC reports it, not derived here$1,003,303

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 C00096842 for the 2026 cycle
MeasureAmount
Contributions to federal candidates$415,200
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 2026 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 Aug 21, 2026.

Activity by kind for committee C00096842 in the 2026 cycle
Kind of activityAmountCandidatesTransactions
Contributions to candidates$362,70087131
Distinct candidates involvedNo combined total87

Every recipient

Every candidate this committee gave to or spent on in the 2026 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 Aug 16, 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.

1 of these candidates have no party recorded and are left out of any party filter.

Top 50 of 87 shown $362,700 total · $326,000 shown here
Every candidate receiving activity from committee C00096842 in the 2026 cycle, ranked by amount
RankCandidateActivityOfficePartyStateAmountShareTransactionsLatest activityCoverage
1Mike Lee S0UT00165 Contribution to the campaignSenateRepublicanUT$16,0004.4%4Mar 18, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
2H. Morgan Griffith H0VA09055 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 9RepublicanVA$15,0004.1%3Mar 18, 20262026 cycle, through Jul 15, 2026
3Rudy Yakym III H2IN02295 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 2RepublicanIN$15,0004.1%3Mar 18, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
4Joyce Beatty H2OH03125 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 3DemocraticOH$15,0004.1%3Mar 18, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
5Tom Cole H2OK04055 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 4RepublicanOK$15,0004.1%3Mar 18, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
6Bruce Westerman H4AR04048 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 4RepublicanAR$15,0004.1%3Mar 18, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
7Frank Pallone, Jr. H8NJ03073 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 3DemocraticNJ$15,0004.1%3Mar 18, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
8Robert E. Latta H8OH05036 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 5RepublicanOH$15,0004.1%3Mar 18, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
9Troy Balderson H8OH12180 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 12RepublicanOH$15,0004.1%3Mar 18, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
10Jon Husted S6OH00304 Contribution to the campaignSenateRepublicanOH$15,0004.1%5Mar 18, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
11Mark R. Warner S6VA00093 Contribution to the campaignSenateDemocraticVA$12,5003.4%5Mar 18, 20262026 cycle, through Jul 15, 2026
12August Pfluger H0TX11230 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 11RepublicanTX$10,0002.8%2Apr 28, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
13Jason Smith H4MO08162 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 8RepublicanMO$10,0002.8%2Apr 28, 20262026 cycle, through Jul 15, 2026
14Brett Guthrie H8KY02031 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 2RepublicanKY$10,0002.8%2Apr 28, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
15Richard E. Neal H8MA02041 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 2DemocraticMA$10,0002.8%2Apr 2, 20262026 cycle, through Aug 12, 2026
16Mike Carey H2OH15228 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 15RepublicanOH$7,5002.1%2Mar 30, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
17Carol D. Miller H8WV03097 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 3RepublicanWV$7,5002.1%2May 19, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
18Steve Scalise H0LA01087 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 1RepublicanLA$5,0001.4%1May 19, 20262026 cycle, through Jul 18, 2026
19Michael A. Rulli H4OH06165 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 6RepublicanOH$5,0001.4%2Apr 28, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
20Erin Houchin H6IN09143 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 9RepublicanIN$5,0001.4%1Mar 30, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
21Mike Johnson H6LA04138 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 4RepublicanLA$5,0001.4%1Jun 29, 20262026 cycle, through Jul 18, 2026
22Martin Heinrich S2NM00088 Contribution to the campaignSenateDemocraticNM$5,0001.4%1Mar 20, 20252026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
23John Cornyn S2TX00106 Contribution to the campaignSenateRepublicanTX$5,0001.4%1Mar 20, 20252026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
24Bill Cassidy S4LA00107 Contribution to the campaignSenateRepublicanLA$5,0001.4%1Mar 3, 20252026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
25James Lankford S4OK00232 Contribution to the campaignSenateRepublicanOK$5,0001.4%1Mar 20, 20252026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
26Ron Wyden S6OR00110 Contribution to the campaignSenateDemocraticOR$5,0001.4%1Mar 20, 20252026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
27Mike Crapo S8ID00027 Contribution to the campaignSenateRepublicanID$5,0001.4%1Mar 20, 20252026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
28Julie Fedorchak H4ND00061 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 0RepublicanND$4,0001.1%3Jun 22, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
29Tom Cotton S4AR00103 Contribution to the campaignSenateRepublicanAR$3,5001.0%2May 19, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
30Gary J. Palmer H4AL06098 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 6RepublicanAL$3,0000.8%2Apr 20, 20262026 cycle, through Jul 22, 2026
31Diana Harshbarger H0TN01118 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 1RepublicanTN$2,5000.7%2Mar 25, 20262026 cycle, through Jul 17, 2026
32Nathaniel Moran H2TX01112 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 1RepublicanTX$2,5000.7%1Sep 9, 20252026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
33J. French Hill H4AR02141 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 2RepublicanAR$2,5000.7%1Apr 28, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
34Tim Walberg H4MI07103 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 7RepublicanMI$2,5000.7%1Sep 29, 20252026 cycle, through Jul 15, 2026
35Kevin Hern H8OK01157 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 1RepublicanOK$2,5000.7%1Nov 14, 20252026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
36John Hoeven S0ND00093 Contribution to the campaignSenateRepublicanND$2,5000.7%1May 19, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
37Ben Ray Luján S0NM00058 Contribution to the campaignSenateDemocraticNM$2,5000.7%2Jan 13, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
38John Thune S2SD00068 Contribution to the campaignSenateRepublicanSD$2,5000.7%1Dec 17, 20252026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
39Thom Tillis S4NC00162 Contribution to the campaignSenateRepublicanNC$2,5000.7%1Jun 24, 20252026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
40Shelley Moore Capito S4WV00159 Contribution to the campaignSenateRepublicanWV$2,5000.7%1Nov 14, 20252026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
41Todd Young S6IN00191 Contribution to the campaignSenateRepublicanIN$2,5000.7%1Jun 24, 20252026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
42Julia Letlow S6LA00664 Contribution to the campaignSenateRepublicanLA$2,5000.7%1Jun 24, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
43Pete Ricketts S6NE00129 Contribution to the campaignSenateRepublicanNE$2,5000.7%1May 19, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
44James E. Risch S8ID00092 Contribution to the campaignSenateRepublicanID$2,5000.7%1May 19, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
45Kevin Cramer S8ND00120 Contribution to the campaignSenateRepublicanND$2,5000.7%1Jun 22, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
46Andrew R. Garbarino H0NY02234 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 2RepublicanNY$2,0000.6%2Jun 22, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
47Julia Letlow H2LA05126 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 5RepublicanLA$2,0000.6%2Aug 22, 20252026 cycle, through Aug 21, 2026
48Julie Johnson H4TX32089 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 32DemocraticTX$2,0000.6%1Sep 29, 20252026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
49Jennifer L. McClellan H4VA04066 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 4DemocraticVA$2,0000.6%2Sep 2, 20252026 cycle, through Jul 15, 2026
50John Joyce H8PA13125 Contribution to the campaignHouse district 13RepublicanPA$1,5000.4%1Jun 2, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
Showing 1 to 50 of 87 recipients

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 87 shown $362,700 total · $151,000 shown here
Contributions to candidates by committee C00096842 in the 2026 cycle, ranked by amount
RankCandidateOfficePartyStateAmountShareTransactionsLatest activityCoverage
1Mike Lee S0UT00165 SenateRepublicanUT$16,0004.4%4Mar 18, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
2H. Morgan Griffith H0VA09055 House district 9RepublicanVA$15,0004.1%3Mar 18, 20262026 cycle, through Jul 15, 2026
3Rudy Yakym III H2IN02295 House district 2RepublicanIN$15,0004.1%3Mar 18, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
4Joyce Beatty H2OH03125 House district 3DemocraticOH$15,0004.1%3Mar 18, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
5Tom Cole H2OK04055 House district 4RepublicanOK$15,0004.1%3Mar 18, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
6Bruce Westerman H4AR04048 House district 4RepublicanAR$15,0004.1%3Mar 18, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
7Frank Pallone, Jr. H8NJ03073 House district 3DemocraticNJ$15,0004.1%3Mar 18, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
8Robert E. Latta H8OH05036 House district 5RepublicanOH$15,0004.1%3Mar 18, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
9Troy Balderson H8OH12180 House district 12RepublicanOH$15,0004.1%3Mar 18, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
10Jon Husted S6OH00304 SenateRepublicanOH$15,0004.1%5Mar 18, 20262026 cycle, through Jun 30, 2026
Show all 87 in the complete table →

How the 2026 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

$362,700 across 87 candidates in the 2026 cycle, covering filings through Aug 21, 2026. 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
PartyAmountShareCandidates
Republican $280,70077.4%65
Democratic $81,00022.3%21
Party not reported $1,0000.3%1
Total$362,700100%

By office and chamber

Contributions to candidates distributed by the office the recipient candidate sought
OfficeAmountShareCandidates
House $253,95070.0%60
Senate $108,75030.0%27
Total$362,700100%

By the candidate's state

Top 12 of 38 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
StateAmountShareCandidates
OH $74,00020.4%8
VA $29,5008.1%3
IN $22,5006.2%3
OK $22,5006.2%3
AR $21,0005.8%3
LA $20,5005.7%6
TX $20,5005.7%5
UT $16,0004.4%1
NJ $15,0004.1%1
KY $11,2003.1%2
WV $10,2502.8%3
MA $10,0002.8%1
Total$362,700100%

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 2026 cycle, covering filings through Aug 21, 2026. Bars are drawn from a zero baseline against one shared scale of $110,500, 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

$362,700 placed by month.

Contributions to candidates by month in the 2026 cycle
MonthAmountTransactions
Mar 2025 $110,50026
Jun 2025 $14,00012
Aug 2025 $3,5002
Sep 2025 $19,70015
Nov 2025 $13,5009
Dec 2025 $8,5007
Jan 2026 $56,50013
Feb 2026 $1,0001
Mar 2026 $69,50019
Apr 2026 $31,00011
May 2026 $19,5008
Jun 2026 $15,5008
Date not reported$0
Total for the cycle$362,700

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 2026 cycle.

Filings behind these figures

The filing ledger is unavailable for the 2026 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.