Appropriations rider seeks to maintain secret corporate political spending

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/campaign/340517-time-to-get-corporate-america-to-be-honest-about-political

 

1.2 million people and thousands of investors are pressuring the Securities Exchange Commission to mandate disclosure of political spending by publicly-traded companies. Republican subcommittee in Congress has authored a rider to the budget bill to strip SEC of the power to pass such a rule.

 

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