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August 17, 2011

Petition for Disclosure of Corporate Political Spending

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: — Mark Latham @ 5:40 pm

“A group of ten very prominent corporate and securities law experts submitted a formal rulemaking petition to the SEC last week urging the Commission to develop rules requiring public companies to disclose the use of corporate resources for political activities to shareowners…”
— Read more at CorpGov.net

You can support this petition by submitting a comment to the SEC by email following their How to Submit instructions — send to rule-comments@sec.gov and include “File Number 4-637” in your Subject.

You can read the comments submitted so far, including mine.

I blogged about this issue last year after the U.S. Supreme Court decision on Citizens United.

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