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Buying Time Political Campaign Vendor Payments 2026

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Organization payee-name aggregate · official FEC data

Buying Time

Campaign operating expenditures filed under this conservatively normalized payee name. Electionpedia does not assert corporate identity, ownership, ideology, or services beyond what the records show.

13 committees79 payments2025–2026 cycle
Direct answer · current non-memo rows

How much did federal committees report paying Buying Time?

$7,532,080.10 across current organization-payment rows in the 2026 FEC operating-expenditures file.

This is an aggregate by normalized filing name. It is not revenue, profit, a verified contract total, or proof that similarly named legal entities are the same organization.

Source: Federal Election Commission Schedule B operating expenditures.

Current amount$7,532,080
Itemized payments79
Committees13
Committee → organization payee

Largest published committee relationships

FEC OPERATING EXPENDITURES

This page publishes at most 75 committee relationships for a payee-name group. The global amount above includes every current eligible row in the source aggregate.

ALEX BORES FOR NY11 itemized payments · latest Jun 17, 2026
$1,382,743.58
SETH FOR MASSACHUSETTS, INC5 itemized payments · latest Aug 7, 2026
$1,347,461.00
MATSUI FOR CONGRESS9 itemized payments · latest May 21, 2026
$1,313,873.73
MANNY RUTINEL FOR CONGRESS12 itemized payments · latest Jun 26, 2026
$1,238,969.06
ADRIAN BOAFO FOR CONGRESS5 itemized payments · latest Jun 12, 2026
$877,511.00
DENISE POWELL FOR CONGRESS10 itemized payments · latest May 8, 2026
$485,809.45
WAY FOR CONGRESS7 itemized payments · latest Jan 30, 2026
$369,625.79
DR. CUELLAR FOR CONGRESS6 itemized payments · latest Feb 20, 2026
$351,825.60
BENGS FOR SOUTH DAKOTA7 itemized payments · latest May 27, 2026
$63,865.00
PAUL BARRINGER FOR CONGRESS1 itemized payment · latest Feb 10, 2026
$45,000.00
ANDREW SNEED FOR CONGRESS4 itemized payments · latest Jun 2, 2026
$30,395.89
DON LEONARD FOR OHIO1 itemized payment · latest Apr 8, 2026
$20,000.00
THE COMMITTEE TO ELECT CHRIS JONES1 itemized payment · latest Feb 10, 2026
$5,000.00
Method boundary

Payee names are evidence, not conclusions.

Organizations only

Individual payees are excluded from this published store.

Amendment-normalized

5,262 superseded transaction versions were removed using committee, report, and transaction identifiers.

Memo rows excluded

358,460 memo-code X rows are excluded from totals because the FEC says they are not included in the itemization total.

Conservative matching

Punctuation and a small set of corporate suffixes are normalized. Electionpedia does not perform unverified corporate-family resolution.