Chain of custody receipt

Source #76836

Cryptographic attestation that the document below was captured in Goblin House's archive at the timestamp shown, with the hash listed. If the original URL goes dark or its content changes, this receipt remains as evidence of what the public record looked like at capture time.

TitleFEC committee C00097485: Merck & Co., Inc., Employees PAC (Merck PAC)
Original URLhttps://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00097485/
PublicationFederal Election Commission
Source typefec_record
Date2026-10-01
EntityMerck & Co., Inc., Employees PAC (Merck PAC)
Captured2026-10-01T07:20:16.980Z UTC
Hash computed at2026-10-01T07:20:16.980Z UTC
SHA-2568a5b6ef7c6354b66d6b02644d412925ac6079fa870bc0b9b5bf5b10ab48f081f
Content length25,487 bytes
Content preview (first 800 chars) 
Federal Election Commission records for committee C00097485 (MERCK & CO., INC., EMPLOYEES POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (MERCK PAC)).
Profile: committee_type=Q designation=B organization_type=C connected_organization=MERCK & CO., INC. party=
Contributions to members' principal campaign committees (FEC Schedule A, as received by the recipient):
2026	2025-03-10	$5,000	to Thom Tillis (R-NC) [C00545772]	line 11C
2026	2025-03-27	$5,000	to Brett Guthrie (R-KY) [C00445023]	line 11C
2026	2025-03-25	$5,000	to Roger Marshall (R-KS) [C00576173]	line 11C
2026	2026-05-13	$5,000	to Roger Marshall (R-KS) [C00576173]	line 11C
2026	2025-03-31	$5,000	to Joni Ernst (R-IA) [C00546788]	line 11C
2026	2025-06-30	$5,000	to Mike Johnson (R-LA) [C00608695]	line 11C
2026	2025-09-30	$5,000	to Mike Johnson (R-LA)…

Verifying this receipt

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Companion machine-readable receipt: /source/76836/receipt.json