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      "id": 103612,
      "date": "2003-07-11",
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      "title": "Political Action Committees: Their Role in Financing Congressional Elections",
      "summary": "Political action committees, or PACs, are legal entities through which interest groups raise and\nspend\nmoney in elections. They constitute one of four major sources of funds contributed to congressional\ncampaigns, along with individual citizens, political parties, and candidates. While PACs \nproliferated and became an issue in the 1970s and 1980s, interest groups have long played a major\nrole in funding American elections.",
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