# Hybrid PAC A **Hybrid PAC** (also called a **Carey committee**, after the 2011 case *Carey v. FEC*) is a political committee that maintains **two separate bank accounts**: one a traditional, contribution-limited account that can give **directly to candidates**, and the other an unlimited account — like a [[Super PACs]] — that can fund only **independent expenditures**. The hybrid structure lets a single committee do both jobs the campaign-finance system normally forces apart: the [[Political Action Committee]]'s direct, coordinated candidate giving *and* the Super PAC's unlimited independent spending. The firewall is the two-account rule: money raised under the unlimited side may never touch the direct-contribution side. It exists because of the same post-2010 court reasoning that produced the Super PAC — if independent expenditures cannot corrupt, the unlimited account is constitutionally protected; the limited account preserves the anti-corruption interest in direct giving. ## See Also - [[Political Action Committee]] — the limited, direct-giving baseline - [[Super PACs]] — the unlimited independent-expenditure form - [[Leadership PAC]] — politician-controlled influence PAC - [[Tax Code Hub]] — folder reader map