This Choreo retrieves the 20 most recent independent expenditures by a given committee (known as "Super PACs"). The documentation for this New York Times API method can be found here.
Here's an example of acceptable inputs:
APIKey: {YOUR API KEY}
CampaignCycle: 2012
FECID: C00341396
The following is a sample of the JSON information returned by this Choreo:
{
"results": [
{
"unique_id": "f56ac176b926e27aaa89651c5daf4923594d89cc",
"filing_id": 786904,
"district": 0,
"amount": 2823.53,
"transaction_id": "SE.37429",
"date": "2012-05-24",
"amended_from": null,
"amendment": null,
"office": "President",
"fec_committee_name": "MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION",
"support_or_oppose": "O",
"candidate_name": "MITT ROMNEY",
"fec_candidate_id": "P80003353",
"date_received": "2012-05-25",
"purpose": "Banner",
"fec_candidate": "/candidates/P80003353.json",
"payee": "Buying Time, LLC",
"fec_uri": null,
"state": "DC"
},
{
"unique_id": "6ebec0ea63119e26d733ce165b4c102cfedd9d03",
"filing_id": 786904,
"district": 0,
"amount": 700,
"transaction_id": "SE.37430",
"date": "2012-05-24",
"amended_from": null,
"amendment": null,
"office": "President",
"fec_committee_name": "MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION",
"support_or_oppose": "O",
"candidate_name": "MITT ROMNEY",
"fec_candidate_id": "P80003353",
"date_received": "2012-05-25",
"purpose": "Media Production",
"fec_candidate": "/candidates/P80003353.json",
"payee": "Art Not War LLC",
"fec_uri": null,
"state": "DC"
},
{
"unique_id": "cba6c19b19d429ef7f7ad98454cfd22cbdad433e",
"filing_id": 777073,
"district": 0,
"amount": 5000,
"transaction_id": "SE.37414",
"date": "2012-04-13",
"amended_from": null,
"amendment": null,
"office": "President",
"fec_committee_name": "MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION",
"support_or_oppose": "O",
"candidate_name": "ROMNEY, MITT",
"fec_candidate_id": "P80003353",
"date_received": "2012-04-13",
"purpose": "Web Advertising",
"fec_candidate": "/candidates/P80003353.json",
"payee": "Chong & Koster",
"fec_uri": "http://images.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?12951411625",
"state": "DC"
},
{
"unique_id": "d35c9b3b77e05f8956250180e3088eba7a8cdc72",
"filing_id": 775513,
"district": 0,
"amount": 5880,
"transaction_id": "SE.36057",
"date": "2012-03-13",
"amended_from": null,
"amendment": null,
"office": "President",
"fec_committee_name": "MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION",
"support_or_oppose": "O",
"candidate_name": "RICHARD J. SANTORUM",
"fec_candidate_id": "P20002721",
"date_received": "2012-04-12",
"purpose": "Media Production",
"fec_candidate": "/candidates/P20002721.json",
"payee": "Art Not War LLC",
"fec_uri": null,
"state": "DC"
}
],
"base_uri": "http://api.nytimes.com/svc/elections/us/v3/finances/2012/",
"total_amount": 1298721.80012512,
"fec_committee": "/committees/C00341396.json",
"copyright": "Copyright (c) 2012 The New York Times Company. All Rights Reserved.",
"cycle": 2012,
"status": "OK",
"offset": null
}
],
"base_uri": "http://api.nytimes.com/svc/elections/us/v3/finances/2012/",
"copyright": "Copyright (c) 2012 The New York Times Company. All Rights Reserved.",
"cycle": 2012,
"status": "OK",
"offset": 0
}