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Business Week:

Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Republican-leaning groups spent almost seven times as much as Democratic rivals during the first three weeks of September, in an effort to sway the Nov. 2 congressional elections, U.S. Federal Election Commission records show.

Groups with no official ties to the Republican Party spent more than $17 million to help Republican candidates, according to reports they filed with the FEC. That compares with $2.6 million spent by groups allied with Democrats.

The funds covered expenses such as advertising and surveys, helping make up for a deficit in official Republican party spending. The two Democratic Party fundraising committees for House and Senate candidates spent $6.8 million during the same period, compared with $3.7 million by their Republican counterparts.

“The public is under siege from advertising by shadowy interest groups,” New York Senator Charles Schumer, a Democratic leader, told reporters in Washington today.

Groups that don’t disclose their donors accounted for more than a third of the spending to aid Republican candidates in the November elections.