This Choreo retrieves detailed information about a Political Action Committee (PAC) in an election cycle. The Choreo makes an HTTP request to the NYTimes Campaign Finance Service, which is described at http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/campaign_finance_api#h3-committee-details.
Here's an example of acceptable inputs:
APIKey: {YOUR API KEY}
CampaignCycle: 2012
CommitteeFECID: C00341396
The following is a sample of the JSON information returned by this Choreo:
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